The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the attic contents of Powderham Castle and Brocklesby Park heading to auction The attic contents of … ...

It was billed as the ‘first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction’ but the auction of the Saunders collection at Sotheby’s New York last night came in significantly below ...

A consignment of historic material relating to Abraham Lincoln drew extensive interest at Freeman's Hindman in Chicago on May 21. The sale included a pair of the gloves that posted an auction record ...

The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) has urged dealers to work together in the face of rising costs. As part of its bi-annual membership survey, the dealer association encourages its members to be ...

A Military Cross awarded to an officer who served on the Western Front and later played professional football for Tottenham Hotspur has been bought by the club at auction. Scottish officer James Ross ...

A group of eight antiquities have been returned to Peru following an intervention by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr. The DA’s office recovered the pieces from “multiple ongoing ...

With estimates from £3000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Modern British Gallery are hosting an online exhibition titled 'Women Only – 60 Pictures Celebrating Women Artists'. The exhibition celebrates the work of women who managed to create a body of work ...

A luxurious still life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-84) which is described as ‘immaculately preserv… ...

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 ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

That, at least, was the theory. In fact, relatively little Irish ‘provincial’ silver made the journey to the metropolis to receive official approval – for reasons of security and economy. It is a ...