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 ...

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 ...

The application of art to commercial and industrial printing spread throughout Europe in the 19th century after high speed colour lithography became possible. It was adopted to advertise everything ...

A Victorian model of an RNLI lifeboat sailed past its £700-900 estimate to hammer down at £7500 (plu… ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

That, at least, was the theory. In fact, relatively little Irish ‘provincial’ silver made the journey to the metropolis to receive official approval – for reasons of security and economy. It is a ...

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

"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 East Anglian Traditional Art Centre highlights the talents of its local creatives in a show which opens this weekend. More than 60 oil paintings, pencil drawings and watercolours by artists ...

However, the Poole Pottery, as it became known, is now remembered as the maker of instantly recognisable Art Deco ware and the striking wares of the 1960s which marked it among the most innovative of ...

Her talent was first spotted in 1916 when she joined Arthur J. Wilkinson, a Burslem maker of standard transfer-printed earthenwares. She trained at art school and was eventually given her own studio ...

A monumental work by Hans Coper (1920-81) which was found in a London garden among weeds and covered in snails sold at more than three times estimate at Chiswick Auctions. The stoneware vessel by the ...