Christie’s broke the 13-year-old auction record for a print by William Blake (1757-1827) at its Old Masters to Modern day sale on December 3.

A painting of a musician by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou (1613-75) led Christie’s latest Old Master evening sale in London.

Among the high prices for pictures at auction towards the tail-end of 2025 were a string of significant sums in the Modern British market. A handful came at Chiswick Auctions’ (26% buyer’s premium) ...

This muscular George IV rosewood and brass inlaid partners’ li… ...

Auction house expansions, relocations and hires around the UK and US. A round up of the latest Movers and Shakers ...

A jug dating to 750BC and due to be auctioned at Cotswold Auction Company in Cirencester will now be returning to Cyprus. It will be repatriated as part of a scheme to recover lost antiquities and is ...

HMRC will increase the fees for anti-money laundering (AML) supervision. Art and antiques dealers and auction houses that must comply with anti-money laundering regulations … ...

Works showing quiet and comfortable domestic settings feature prominently in the output of the prolific French artist Henri Lebasque (1865-1937). While he also painted lavish interiors, nudes and post ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the 23-year-old auction record for Mouseman furniture being broken by an exceptionally large dining table ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...