A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis. The work by ...
Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...
The Worcester factory was founded at Warmstry House in 1751 by a deed of partnership with 15 members. The period from foundation to 1783, when it was acquired by Thomas Flight, is known as the First ...
This rare English mineral water bottle sold for £19,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Griffin’s Auctioneers in Warwick on February 25. The price is thought to be the third highest for a Victorian ...
A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s. It will be reunited with the sketchbook the composer tore the pages from ...
Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.
The archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 gifted his suitcase to his colleague and friend John Healey in 1939 and will now be auctioned at Elstob We apologise for the inconvenience.
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A Charles II provincial silver tankard and a William III silver beaker carry hopes of £4000-6000 and… ...
Henry Orlik (b.1947) is a celebrated Surrealist who's enjoying a fevered revival, but the cheering comeback is tarnished by a raft of missing work. From January 23 your current password will no longer ...
Paris auction house Tajan is to sell a previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869).
It’s not often that you find a Concorde cockpit, a Victorian pharmacy and a butcher’s shop appearing at the same sale. From January 23 your current password will no longer be valid. We apologise for ...