A pair of late 17th century delftware shoes that were stolen six year ago have been reunited with their owner thanks to the actions of a Wiltshire auctioneer.

Auction house Bonhams has a new owner and has announced a sweeping change in the firm’s management. Owned by private equity form Epiris since 2018, it has now been acquired by Pemberton Asset Manageme ...

An audacious robbery of valuable jewellery from Louvre at the weekend has forced the museum to remain closed for investigation. At around 9.30am on Sunday, October 19 four men pulled up on mopeds and ...

An original work by Salvador Dali discovered in a Cambridge-based house cleara… ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a box of jewellery containing hidden gems setting a house record Adam Partridge ...

A group of benches consigned by The National Gallery took more than seven times their top estimate at auction. The gallery consigned the 10 benches across eight lots to Bellmans’ October 14 auction ...

Cumbria saleroom Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) broke its own auction record for Percy Kelly (1918-93) this autumn. Prices for the Workington-born artist have generally risen over the last 30 years ...

As followers of Old Master prints are well aware, Rembrandt (1606-69) etchings appear at auction with great regularity with the most sought after subjects and earliest states commanding impressive ...

However, the Poole Pottery, as it became known, is now remembered as the maker of instantly recognisable Art Deco ware and the striking wares of the 1960s which marked it among the most innovative of ...

It was very much a local concern and local is the best word to describe the scope of factory and its wares, the geographical spread of its original clientele and, by and large, the nature of its ...

Different from the simple overglaze 'bat' printed wares produced at the Worcester and Caughley factories from the 1750s, Spode's ingenious method involved first the engraving of a design onto a copper ...

The form emerged in the early 18 th century, though the origin of the name is obscure. Chairs of this type were manufactured in large numbers in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, and Windsor may ...