The Wimshurst influence machine, an electrostatic generator capable of creating high voltages, was developed between 1880-83 by British […]
Some keenly contested examples of Asian art featured in the large sale held by Schuler in Zurich on […]
This Yongzheng (1722-35) mark and period Eight Immortals bowl sold for £26,000 at the Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) […]
The London entrepreneur James Cox (c.1723-18Roland Arkell 00) is best known as a specialist in the intricate clockwork […]
This rare poster for ‘The Invisible Man’, the 1933 Universal Studios horror film, realised a hammer price of […]
A very early railway guide, still in the original decorative boards, was a rare and unusual lot in […]
The minaudière, a case for storing several personal items in a small space, first appeared during the 1930s. […]
An early coastal scene of Australia sold for more than five times its top estimate to an online […]
This collection of 10 carnelian intaglios carved to depict classical figures and scenes once formed part of the […]
Lucas was probably born in 1472, in Kronach, hence his Anglicised name Lucas Cranach. He became known as ‘the Elder’ on the birth of his younger son, who was his namesake. As well as painting for the Saxon court, Cranach’s work also included altarpieces for Lutheran churches and portraits of Protestant reformers. In his lifetime, he is recorded as having created 13 586 paintings, of which 2145 were in oils; he also created 14 008 woodcuts. He is commemorated as the most successful German artist of his time. He is remembered by the Lutheran Church, when he is celebrated in their liturgical calendar on 6 April.
There was no shortage of desirable names among the 1370-lot Fine & Decorative three-day sale at Kingham & […]
The recent sale of Clarice Cliff, Art Deco & Design at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury included 27 […]
A cache of pocket watches, unseen on the market for close to a century, sold for £145,000 in […]
An album of 35 photographs relating to the Alaskan ‘Gold Rush’ of the turn of the 19th and […]
One of the highlights of a busy week in the salerooms came at Dreweatts’ auction of the Sir […]
Among the most recognisable of all the famille rose porcelain designs produced in China for export to Europe […]