The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of dealers in St James’s warning that rent rises could lead to firms closing.

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought two 17th century Dutch still life paintings, one by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-84) and one by his slightly older predecessor Pieter Claesz ...

National Army Museum acquires Victorian study from Cecil Court dealer. London dealer Darnley Fine Art of Cecil Court has sold a study of Henry Nelson O’Neil’s picture Eastward ...

Collection from former art editor and director of The Sunday Times Magazine comes to auction. Part of the private art collection of Michael Rand (1929-2025), the art editor and di ...

Plea to find Coalbrookdale benches and sundial stolen in Herefordshire. The owner of a group of four antique Coalbrookdale benches and a decorative armillary sundial has made a pl ...

Sotheby’s to auction extraordinary chess collection. In the world of chess, few names command as much quiet authority as Lothar Schmid.

The original mahogany rostrum was designed by the celebrated cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale in the 1700s for the firm’s founder James Christie. It had a long innings, serving as the principal rostrum ...

"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 ...

Burmantofts Pottery was born out of James Holroyd’s architectural brickworks, taking advantage of the rich local deposits of both coal and clay. However, today, the church built in Shakespeare Street ...

While the origins of the game date back over a millennium (early precursors have been traced to the 6th century AD), its popularity in Europe really started to grow in the Medieval period as the game ...

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 ...

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 ...