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 ...

Top stories this week including Dreweatts posting a record turnover for a UK provincial saleroom. The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of auction ...

Former Christie’s specialist-turned antiques dealer sells Irish country house contents at auction. Serena Williams-Ellis, a former Christie’s specialist who became an antiques ...

Designer and former model Jade Jagger auctions items from her Georgian home in Gloucestershire. British jewellery and interior designer Jade Jagger, the daughter of Rolling Stones ...

A bustling and busy first preview day at TEFAF Maastricht heralded the start of significant sales at the annual fair. Among the sales in the opening hours of the first preview day was a c.1450 ...

Two ‘lost’ illustrations from a celebrated edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book sold for a combined £100,000 at south London saleroom Roseberys on March 10.

Top stories this week including the evacuation of an auction house after a landmine was brought in for valuation. The most read stories on this website over the last week included ...

Global art market returns to growth but sales remain below 2022 peak. The art market grew 4% in 2025 with an estimated $59.6bn of global sales. The rise follows two consecutive ye ...

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 ...

"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 ...

During a walk-in valuation day on the morning of February 24 at Chiswick Auctions' 6 Roslin Square consignment warehouse (not its Barley Mow gallery headquarters), a member of the public arrived with ...

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 ...