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 ...

Different from the simple overglaze 'bat' printed wares produced at the Worcester and Caughley factories from the 1750s, Spode's ingenious method involved first the engraving of a design onto a copper ...

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 ...

The huge V&A East Storehouse opens this weekend giving the chance to view its items and objects for the first time. The site is the size of more than 30 basketball courts and is the home for more than ...

A 1930s linocut by British-Canadian artist Sybil Andrews has been recovered after being stolen more than 30 years ago. The Art Loss Register (ALR) helped track down the artwork and brought the ...

Sotheby’s is to offer over 100 important Napoleon items from the Pierre-Jean Chalençon collection in Paris on June 25.

An important cubist painting by Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) set a major auction record for the Irish artist at Whyte’s this week. The work was part of a series of paintings made in the late 1930s on ...

A painting by Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) which emerged from a shed in rural Sweden drew competition at an auction in Stockholm.

Kerry Taylor Auctions hosted its first US auction on May 21, offering the collection of Peggy Moffitt – the American model who died last year. The auction house expanded to its Jersey City premises ...

The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) has urged dealers to work together in the face of rising costs. As part of its ...

A string of works by East Anglian artists, each with their own well-established market, drew notable attention at the latest ...

The UK’s first solo exhibition of Hungarian postwar artist Karl Stengel (1925–2017) is being hosted … ...