A group of 30 Old Masters, including pictures by Fragonard and Watteau, held in a private collection for decades and rarely seen in public will be offered at Christie’s Paris this spring. Many of the ...

A huge single-owner collection of Oscar Wilde letters, books and portraits are going under the hammer at Bonhams next month.

Antiques are being scrapped in bulk as the price of silver continues to soar. The spot price for silver in the UK rose above £50 per troy ounce for the first time on December 22,… ...

Despite suffering from water damage, wear and loss to the sheet as well as chips and cracks to the later 1950s-style frame, a head study of a bearded man brought intense competition at a recent sale ...

Antiques dealers and singer Kate Bush were among those paying tribute to Matthew Upham, 64, following his tragic disappearance at sea. The antiques dealer was one of two swimmers who went missing ...

The most viewed stories on this website over 2025 included news of tributes being paid to Flog It! specialist and silver expert Michael Baggott who died in January ...

Three photographs of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace (1815-52) have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in a private treaty sale. The images, the only known photographs of the mathematician ...

The top pictures sold at regional salerooms in 2025 included an Old Master, a Lavery double portrait and a John Constable sketch. Here we pick out five of the best results which were covered in ATG ...

It was very much a local concern and local is the best word to describe the scope of factory and its wares, the geographical spread of its original clientele and, by and large, the nature of its ...

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

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 ...

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 ...