Arriving just in time for those seeking to do some Christmas shopping, Classic Antique Fairs return November 29-December 1. This charming antique and arts fair has become synonymous with the Midlands ...

The wider market is increasingly selective, but Qing mark and period porcelain continues to shine in the saleroom. The UK auction houses that offered imperial porcelain in the autumn Asian art series ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.

A replica Cheltenham Gold Cup awarded to Frank Vickerman, the owner of 1948 winner Cottage Rake, fet… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The written note was from passenger Richard William Smith, who perished with 1500 others three days later ...

A 14th-century mosque lamp from Egypt or Syria achieved the highest price for a glass object at auction when it sold at four times estimate at Bonhams in London yesterday.

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 ...

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