Ceramics commemorating the coronation of Edward VIII are less rare than often supposed, having been produced in abundance […]
Featuring in the same two-day auction as a £7000 cache of Beatrix Potter ephemera found in a Cumbrian […]
Uncut and partially unopened, a truly exceptional presentation copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species… sold […]
Bearing a thumbprint on the title-page – along with a note by a secretary, Susan Macey, witnessing it […]
The force was strong with a sale of Star Wars toys at Hansons of Derbyshire last week as […]
Pictured here is the front page of the scarce second issue of Dandy, published in January 1937, along […]
From Thomas Edison’s first attempt to create a music recording and playing device in 1877 to Alexander Graham Bell’s graphophone, inventors had been trying to find an effective way to record sound. Fortunately, Emile Berliner invented the first-ever sound recorder, which was called the gramophone. The gramophone proved to be more practical than its earlier counterparts and made it possible to mass-produce records. Berliner then formed the Gramophone Company to sell and distribute his products worldwide. Only a few of these once popular gramophones are in existence now, so they are a good investment. The invention of the gramophone is a testament to how science can do great wonders for the arts and vice-versa.
A portrait by Spanish master Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) last recorded in 1724 is to be offered with a […]
Research shows the number of people under age 45 buying antiques has risen Radhika Sanghani recounts filling her […]
Two studies by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones for his 1868 oil Hymenaeus will soon be reunited with the […]
George White studied art in London before becoming the chief specialist figure painter on vases, plates, cups and saucers at Doulton’s Burslem Studio. He painted figures, usually maidens in romantic scenes and wearing diaphanous garments. He uses soft and delicate colours and was able to depict the translucent quality of these robes in realistic and very lovely detail. He also decorated Luscian ware, one of Charles Noke’s many specialties. It is an enamelled pottery and tended to be decorated in the Art Nouveau style from around 1900. George’s vases and plates must have taken hours of painstaking work to decorate, and together with the rarity value of these finest pieces, it’s no wonder they are much sought after now.
Chest attributed to Flemish-born London maker Gerrit Jensen tops furniture from Worcestershire manor
A consignment of furniture from the medieval Eastington Hall, Worcestershire, boosted Chorley’s (20% buyer’s premium) latest sale in […]
More of a curiosity than a clock but a decorator’s dream, a life-size caricature of a smiling Chinese […]
Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) offered 12 impeccably provenanced pieces by Peter Waals (1870-1937) at Oxford on May 23. […]
A set of the monumental ‘Description de l’Égypte…’ in its specially made case was sold last month in […]
A lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair that was “evidently given” by the great composer to the pianist […]
Bid to a much higher than expected $23,000 (£17,970) in a Massachusetts auction was the signed photograph of […]
Two astronomical works dating from the 17th century were among the more successful works in a recent German […]