George Kidner Auctioneers and Valuers is to close following the retirement of its founder. Extracted from Antiques Trade […]
Author: Learn Antiques Team
The Victorian Conservative politician Lord Coventry is believed to have commissioned this portrait of favourite hounds Rambler and […]
Paintings by the great Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) are not especially rare at auction. However, while depictions of […]
This seasonal watercolour of figures ice skating in the Lake District (below) sold for a mid-estimate £3600 at […]
It was in 1751 that Dr. John Wall founded a porcelain factory that would become known as the Royal Worcester Porcelain factory. Early Worcester marks are very rare, with typically a crescent mark. These marks were irregular and a bit haphazard. It wasn’t until 1862 that the Royal Worcester marks were first introduced. At first, the company used the letters of the alphabet to designate the year of manufacture. After they had used up the letters, the Royal Worcester introduced a fairly simple code using dots for the years. By the 1980s, some of the pieces made had elaborate marks. They include not only the issue numbers but also the designers’ names.
Never out of fashion, the best furniture by Robert Thompson is going through one of its periodic surges […]
Posters covering band or artist appearances during the embryonic days of their development are proving very popular at […]
A new auction record for the idiosyncratic stonewares of the Martin brothers was established at Phillips’ Design sale […]
Showing hardly any signs of wear and signed by JK Rowling – and originally acquired at a special […]
In his lifetime, Kaare Klint was referred to as the creator of Danish furniture design. Having a successful architect for a father exposed him to architecture from a young age. This also influenced him to settle for a career in architecture, besides the fact that he was also struggling as a painter. Klint started his career as an apprentice to his father and attended classes at a few schools. His analytical approach to his projects, the use of high-quality materials, and superb craftsmanship influenced quite a lot of furniture designers of his generation. Klint’s combination of his creative nature and carefully researched furniture designs made him the father of modern Danish furniture.
For 30 years the London lawyer David Cooper and his wife Marie devoted themselves to building a collection […]
A notable feature of the end-of-year book sales in 2018 was the number of online auctions held by […]
A copy of WB Yeats’ The Wanderings of Oisin… offered in a recent Irish sale was an example […]
Packed with a varied selection of precisely 1000 lots, a very thick catalogue rounded off one saleroom’s year […]
Chinese bidders were the driving force at this autumn’s German and Austrian auctions of Asian art. Extracted from […]
High-priced luxury handbags and other luxury goods made the most money at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) sale of […]
Illuminated manuscript sales of recent times will be the subject of a future review, but seen here is […]
A single-owner private collection, including significant works by artists from the Modern British canon, will be sold at […]