Richard Edmonds (20% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham, Wiltshire, has sold some very rare British petrol pump globes in […]
Author: Learn Antiques Team
Sir William Whitfield and Andrew Lockwood shared a love of English blue and white transfer printed pottery and […]
It is badly damaged, but this large shallow dish offered by Aldridges of Bath (20% buyer’s premium) is […]
A metal detectorist who was ready to give up for the day after finding only three .22 lead […]
Novelty inkwells such as this one modelled as a miniature six-bolt diving helmet and corselet were made by […]
One to a lord about an Ottoman sultan, the other asking for six eggs – two very different […]
Trudpert Schneider (1804-99), a Freiburg carpenter whose first brush with photography was to repair a broken box camera, […]
A luxurious watch with a British royal connection went under the hammer last month at Cortrie (20% buyer’s […]
Compiled by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey of Thirkleby Park in North Yorkshire, an illustrated manuscript on archery dating from […]
Nicholas Hilliard was apprenticed to goldsmith Robert Brandon, jeweller to the Queen. Besides being trained as a goldsmith, Hilliard was a limner – a painter of miniatures. He worked in Queen Elizabeth I’s court from the time he was accepted as a member of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1570 on completion of his apprenticeship. His specialty was portraits created in watercolour on vellum (calfskin), which he would paste to a firm support such as a playing card. He would lay down the base colours before using a fine brush to add details using the technique of hatching. Hilliard did not limit himself to miniatures; he also painted full-length portraits.
A break-up may seem an unusual occasion to celebrate but a US auction held on the 50th anniversary […]
A selection of Items relating to the famous escapologist Harry Houdini feature prominently among the potential highlights in […]
Among the most successful printing projects marking the Napoleonic Wars were the series of aquatints by Thomas Sutherland […]
One of the strongest performers in a large, mixed-discipline online-only sale held by Cottone ( 18% buyer’s premium) […]
The production of Japanese porcelain started in the 17th century, later than that of Korea and China. Japanese porcelain comprises of a highly exceptional white to an off-white hard paste made with ball clays and kaolin blended with silica and feldspar. Methods and ideas entered Japan all the way from China through Korea together with the methods and ways for producing pottery, Korean and Chinese designs. In the beginning, the wares used European shapes and Chinese decoration, just as done by the Chinese. Nevertheless, the innovative Japanese styles developed progressively. At present, Japanese porcelain is considered to be one of the best in quality and the finest in the world.
The sale of portrait miniatures held online by Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) included a watercolour on ivory […]
The Comerford collection of portrait miniatures, offered for sale by Chiswick Auctions last month, was acquired almost in […]
Some keenly contested examples of Asian art featured in the large sale held by Schuler in Zurich on […]