Whitefriars Glass Britain’s longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, was purchased by James Powell for his three sons in 1834. It subsequently led fashion and technology in ...

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.

The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund has successfully raised £3.8m after a public appeal to save Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red. The sculpture was blocked from ...

Gold jewellery that had belonged to a family in south London for generations was stolen in a burglary while the residents were still at home. Now police have released images of the jewellery ...

A rare mosaic by sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) is coming to auction from the collection of dealer Ken Bolan. Bolan, who previously ran gallery Talisman, is auctioning 400 items from his ...

The price is the most ever achieved for a work by Lubin Baugin. French auction house Vichy Enchères set a new high for 17th-century French painter Lubin Baugin (161… ...

A pair of diamond earrings crafted by jewellery designer Andrew Grima (192… ...

The AMI Continental II jukebox appeared in 1962, a time when space race excitement was gripping the US. This radical look was noteworthy because jukeboxes until then were often inspired by the design ...

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included the paintings sell-off from Trinity House Paintings ...

The Hampton’s Design Edit, a timed online auction from US auction house Freeman’s Hindman, is underway, raising money for East Side House. The charity is supported by The Winter Show, the January art ...

Bermondsey Antiques Market is celebrating a new investment from Bermondsey Square Community Fund. The fund purchased new branded gazebos for the square (pictured). They can be used by the weekly mar… ...

The latest in the new series of Fake or Fortune? featured a work possibly by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman. The fourth episode in the 13th series, which aired at 9pm, Monday, August 11, ...