This early 18th century walnut chest of drawers offered at Rowley’s (22.5% buyer’s premium) Ely rooms on February […]
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Familiar striking shapes and bright colours retain a strong following despite a fall in demand from the 1980s-90s […]
Rather sparsely catalogued, this unusual 14in (36cm) Lalique glass dish with a lovebirds design had emerged from a […]
Two early panel paintings, one German, the other Cretan, emerged from a Florida collection to sell for six-figure […]
Scottish artist Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) painted few subjects more obsessively throughout his career than the crucifixion. Extracted from […]
A fine copy of the very first issue of the Beano has sold at auction for £8700. Beano […]
The concertina-cut novelty pictured here is one in which a painted roundel of a cottage pulls up to […]
Sotheby’s is to offer what it deems “the most important work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s celebrated career” as part […]
Two previously unpublished ink sketches by John Constable (1776 -1837) excelled at Chiswick Auctions’ latest British & European […]
Post-war art stored in a cupboard for “many years” by an academic institution in Leicestershire drew strong bidding […]
Regarded in their time as examples of the finest cabinet-making rather than simply reproductions, good 19th century French […]
A Dehua blanc de chine figure of Guanyin sold for a surprise £39,000 – some 130 times the […]
Two rediscovered marble busts by the French 18th century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) are to be offered in […]
‘Lost’ episodes of TV series have become sought-after items, not least among Doctor Who fans. Of interest to […]
A very rare and inscribed example of CS Lewis’ first published work, a 1919 collection of verses previewed […]
A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens created for an important commission in Antwerp has been discovered […]
This study (above) was one of 10 drawings by Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) consigned by an […]
The sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (plus 21% buyer’s premium) on January 29 – an event dominated […]