New York series boasts confidence as Jackson Pollock sails to record $157m. The latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in New York showed the top-end of the market gain ...

First World War trench maps and a 16th century cordiform world map are among the highlights at the next London Map Fair. Returning to Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, the ...

Rabindranath Tagore watercolour flies to over 150 times estimate. The unexpected highlight of the collection of Niall Hobhouse sold by Dreweatts on May 13 was a pai ...

Sir Roy Strong’s garden statuary comes to auction after his beloved The Laskett is set to be sold. Statuary from the garden of art historian, writer and museum curator Sir Roy S ...

David Aaron kicked off TEFAF New York with the sale of its star piece, a 3300-year-old Egyptian stele from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose IV.

Rare watercolour of Grenada flies to 15 times estimate. The artist George Heriot (1759-1839) is perhaps best known for his landscapes of Canada and pictures of indigenous people.

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 ...

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

The years between the loss of the American colonies and George IV’s death in 1830 were the golden age for single-sheet political caricatures – bracketing the careers of two giants of the genre, James ...

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 ...

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 ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...