Top stories this week including the sale of statuary from Roy Strong’s garden. The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of an auction of garden sta ...

A rarely seen print archive featuring work by Mod Brit art greats including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, Paula Rego, Ceri Richards and John Piper will soon be available freely ...

Rediscovered Anna Tonelli portrait goes above estimate at Cotswolds auction. A rare painting by the Italian artist Anna Tonelli (c.1763-1846) emerged at a sale at Cotswold Auction ...

Battersea's Decorative Fair celebrates strong opening day sales. Dealers at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park were praising the opening day as one of their best.

Duncan Grant still life catches the eye at Modern Made sale. While a bountiful Cedric Morris still life was the headline lot at Lyon & Turnbull’s (27/26% buyer’s premium) late ...

A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's. They had been owned by ...

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

Omega Auctions withdrew the sale of an original score for the 1966 Beatles' classic Eleanor Rigby ahead of its auction earlier this month due to a family dispute over ownership. Omega Auctions has ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...