Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

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 ...

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...

This self-portrait painted by Joseph Wright (1734-97) at the age o… ...

A group of 19 album leaves from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ have been discovered in homes in Dorset and London. Roseberys has given the paintings, originally part of a natural history ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86). It was acquired in a private sale from London dealer Daniel Katz ...

A postcard from Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) in Cape Town to his then fiancée Emily Dorman in London appeared at a recent sale at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s.

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of efforts to establish whether antiques will be ...

An archive of photographs, article notes and correspondence belonging to a Polish journalist documenting the Spanish Civil War sold above estimate at Doyle New York. Formed by Jan Winter (1907-1991), ...

A Victorian model of an RNLI lifeboat sailed past its £700-900 estimate to hammer down at £7500 (plu… ...

Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens for its 11th edition on May 16 in the grounds of the National Trust’s Petworth House & Park. This annual event has taken place in its purpose built marquee ...