Prizes were awarded for outstanding objects at the opening gala party for this year’s staging of Asian Art in London. The two ...

The UK government’s Budget included a raft of measures that are likely to affect the art and antiques market.

Philip Hewat-Jaboor was the chairman of the Masterpiece art fair and amassed a significant antiquities collection at his ...

A medallion of mould used in Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin’s antibacterial properties achieved a record price of $76,000 (£58,500) including buyer’s premium at Bonhams’ History of ...

Paolo Forlani's map was not only the first to focus primarily on North America but among the first to depict the Strait of Anian, separating America and Asia ...

Recently found in a trunk containing the possessions of an Edwardian socialite, an electroplated teapot designed by Christopher Dresser c.1879 sold for £63,000 at auction in Cambridge. The teapot ...

A map from 1850 recording Horatio Thomas Austin’s 1850 voyage in search of Sir John Franklin and his… ...

One of only six known early 17th century copies of an important wall map by pioneering cartographer Andreas Bureus emerges at Stockholms Auktionsverk Sweden in 1626 was a country expanding and ...

The Cotton Board had been founded to raise standards of design and improve exports in wartime. As th… ...

The picture, which the museum dubbed ‘the Mona Lisa of Brabant’ in its public campaign to buy the wo… ...

The first Rolex to be worn on the moon achieved a hammer price of $1.73m (£1.33m) at RR Auctions in … ...

Stealing the limelight at Dreweatts (26/25% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern and Contemporary art, an Algernon Newton (1880-1968) view of the London docklands drew vigorous bidding from five ...