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 ...

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 ...

Vincennes porcelain dish makes 20 times estimate at Wimbledon Auctions A shell shaped Vincennes dish from c.1757 featuring the bleu céleste ground colour appeared at Wimbledon Auctions on May 28.

Top 10 Old Masters at auction The record-setting £27.5m Canaletto at Christie’s last week represented the sixth highest sum ever recorded at auction for an Old Master. But what others feature in the ...