Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries come to auction this summer. A pair of late Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries with a Spanish connection will be offered at Bonhams on July ...

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 ...

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of Sotheby’s announcing the sale of works from the Lewis collection this summer.

John Wayne's signet ring is among five lots to watch. With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Lamorna’ Birch collection formed by authority on the artist to be sold. A collection of works by Samuel John ‘Lamorna’ Birch (1869-1955) formed by an expe ...

This summer Sotheby’s will offer what is billed as ‘the most valuable single collection ever offered in London’.

"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 ...

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 ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

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 ...

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 ...