Christie’s reports flat first half auction sales for 2025. Auction house Christie’s reported auction sales of $2.1bn (£1.6bn) in the first half of 2025, a level on a par with ...

Sotheby’s has launched a new series of podcasts titled ‘The Specialist’ in which the auction house’s experts give a behind-the-scenes look at the auction world. Each 10-minute episode focuses on a ...

Yorkshire museum needs the final £600,000 by August 27 to save a Barbara Hepworth sculpture The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund teamed up to launch the public appeal to save a £3.8m Dame Barba… ...

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 ...

English Drinking Glasses English drinking glasses have a long collecting pedigree. Certain types have been sought out for many centuries as ceremonial accoutrements, but the idea of collecting them as ...

Transfer Printed Pottery The advent of underglaze transfer printing, perfected at the Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent in 1784, marked a key moment in the history of British ceramics.

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 ...

The antiques and vintage sale at Gardiner Houlgate in Corsham on July 31 includes the Swift collection of antique prams. Jan and Geoff Swift, siblings and former schoolteachers with no children of ...