If you are new to the art market you may find this list of terms frequently used by Antiques Trade Gazette helpful. Living artists and the descendants of artists deceased within the last 70 years are ...

Sotheby’s is planning its first auction in Saudi Arabia in what will be the first sale to be held by an international auction house in the kingdom. Set for February 8, the two-part evening sale titled ...

Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

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 ...

The Worcester factory was founded at Warmstry House in 1751 by a deed of partnership with 15 members. The period from foundation to 1783, when it was acquired by Thomas Flight, is known as the First ...

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 ...