You might think that when a picture is covered in dirt, suffers from a puncture and paint losses, and also has a tear so large you could put your hand through it, then that would ‘kill’ its prospects ...

ForgeLynch is getting into the Christmas spirit with an exhibition called 'Gifts from the Ancient World'. It will be held at its Pall Mall premises from December 2-6, from 10am-6pm. The show will ...

Titanic memorabilia record set as pocket watch fetches £1.31m The pocket watch was awarded to the captain of RMS Carpathia, whose captain and crew saved more than 700 people A pocket watch presented ...

The wider market is increasingly selective, but Qing mark and period porcelain continues to shine in the saleroom. The UK ...

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Burmantofts Pottery was born out of James Holroyd’s architectural brickworks, taking advantage of the rich local deposits of both coal and clay. However, today, the church built in Shakespeare Street ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...

Recently rediscovered in a German family collection where they have been for at least a century, a pair of Ming dynasty wucai ...

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 ...

More than £24,000 worth of items were stolen from National Trust property Montacute House in Somerset last month. A 1781 ...

The gold ground panel, which has been in the UK for approximately two centuries, was knocked down at… ...

Vendor looks to double their money after discovering Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘only surviving landscape’ on the back of equestrian portrait Christie's is offering Anthony van Dyck’s (1599-1641) painting ‘An ...