If you are new to the art market you may find this list of terms frequently used by Antiques Trade Gazette helpful. Living artists and the descendants of artists deceased within the last 70 years are ...

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 ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a key work by the renowned studio potter Hans Coper (1920-81) being found in a back garden and now being offered at Chiswick ...

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

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 ...

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A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s. It will be reunited with the sketchbook the composer tore the pages from ...

An autograph letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie was among a group of Jacobite relics discovered among a wide array of antiques during a Georgian townhouse clearance. It was sent by the Young Pretender ...