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 ...

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 ...

A major consignment of Old Masters is coming up at Sotheby’s New York in May which the saleroom said is poised to break the ...

A 1963 first UK issue of The Amazing Spider-Man comic – the first to solely focus on the superhero – appeared at a recent auction at Ewbank’s. The comic, written by Stan Lee with art by Jack Kirby and ...

Modern names were among the major sellers at the recent staging of Frieze Los Angeles.

A ‘never-before-seen’ painting by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) drew prolonged competition at Cheffins’ latest sale in Cambridge. The 19.75in x 2ft (51 x 61cm) oil on canvas depicting flowers ...

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A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis. The work by ...

Crane Kalman Gallery is staging an exhibition celebrating the work of British painter Mary Newcomb (1922-2008). The show, which runs at the London gallery from March 6-April 19, will feature many ...

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art is currently hosting an exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) until March 7. The Georgian period was the heyday of the caricature in England, ...

Henry Orlik (b.1947) is a celebrated Surrealist who's enjoying a fevered revival, but the cheering comeback is tarnished by a raft of missing work. The artist and his advisors have put up a reward of ...

Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.