They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...
Among the museum purchases at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year was a table sold by a Brighton dealer to Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in a deal that has just been announced. The table was made ...
Appeal for lost sweetheart brooch and stolen rings. Two people are appealing for help from the antiques trade and auctioneers after a lost brooch and a theft of rings occurred thi ...
Titanic ticket is among five lots to watch. With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...
Top stories this week including a rediscovered Old Master emerging in Wimbledon. The most read stories on this website over ...
Tyrannosaurus rex specimen takes record $43m at auction. One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered was hammered down at $43m (£32m) at Soth ...
Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...
Within the broader context of 18th century drinking glasses there are certain areas which form the basis of specialist collecting fields. One of these is Beilby glassware, a class mostly of drinking ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Antiquities specialist Kallos Gallery is closing after 12 years as its founder is switching his interest to new projects.
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