A group of prints tucked away in the basement of Kent County Council’s County Hall have sold at a Sworders auction. Comprising approximately 350 lithographs, linocuts, screenprints, woodcuts, etchings ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAPADA dealers will not take part in this summer’s 'The Game Fair'. Art and antiques dealers had been part of the event since 2021. At this summer’s fair, running from … ...

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 ...

A funerary stela was essentially the ancient Egyptian equivalent of a tombstone, … ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of JMW Turner’s first exhibited oil painting coming to Sotheby’s after being spotted at a regional sale last year.

A large maritime-themed advertising sign featuring the passenger liner Capetown Castle sold for £22,000 at bottles and advertising specialists BBR Auctions on July 6. The sale, part of the Summer ...

Photo London to be first artworld event held at newly refurbished Olympia. The newly redeveloped Olympia, set to be unveiled later this year after a £1.3bn makeover, will host 'P ...

Leica prototype takes seven-figure sum. A Leica prototype camera took a hammer price of €6m (€7.2m including premium) against an estimate of €1.5m-2m at an auction in Austri ...

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 ...