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 ...

Art market terms – a glossary If you are new to the art market you may find this list of terms frequently used by Antiques Trade Gazette helpful. After When a work of art or an object is described as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yorkshire museum needs the final £600,000 by August 27 to save a Barbara Hepworth sculpture The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund teamed up to launch the public appeal to save a £3.8m Dame Barba… ...

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 ...

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 … ...

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

Billed as ‘the last opportunity to own something very personal from the family’s own collection’, a group of drawings, paintings, letters and memorabilia relating to Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) ...

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 ...

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.

The late US dealer Richard L Feigen (1930-2021) handled works by numerous artists over his long career. But two of the names with whom he became most associated were Max Beckmann (1884-1950) and ...