Auction house John Pye has been appointed to help find a buyer for the collapsed pottery firm W. Moorcroft Ltd. The historic manufacturer announced it had gone into liquidation earlier this month with ...

A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London. The 19 album leaves were offered as two separate lots on May ...

This Victorian silver-mounted green or amber glass claret jug in t… ...

The ‘retirement’ sale of dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Essex saleroom Sworders this week will be held exactly 50 years since he opened his first antiques shop in Derbyshire. Atkinson’s career ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the auction of a Salvator Mundi drawing attributed to an artist from Leonardo da Vinci's workshop.

Derbyshire event attracts visitors not just from the Peak District but Cheshire, the Midlands, Nottinghamshire and south Yorkshire ...

An autograph album containing the signatures of notable figures from the early 20th century is to appear at Chiswick Auctions in a timed sale ending May 18. The album provides an insight into the ...

This year, the 'London Rare & Antiquarian Book Fair' will be held on May 17-18 at the ILEC Conference Centre. The fair features almost 100 UK and international dealers showcasing published works, maps ...

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 ...

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 ...

An early work by LS Lowry (1887-1976) first sold to the literary editor of The Manchester Guardian for £10 in 1926 and kept by his family is now estimated at £700,000-£1m in a May 1-2 auction.

"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 ...