Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

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

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 ...

In storage for a century, a remarkable cache of Chinese works of art has sold for £870,000.

For many centuries, Venetian glass beads were at the core of global trade and were the inspiration for a critically acclaimed book exploring that legacy The Design Gallery is holding an exhibition of ...

Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

The form emerged in the early 18 th century, though the origin of the name is obscure. Chairs of this type were manufactured in large numbers in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, and Windsor may ...

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 ...

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

Abstract and surrealist paintings by the American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) are a valuable proposition at auction and so it was no surprise that a small picture from a good source drew interest at a ...

That, at least, was the theory. In fact, relatively little Irish ‘provincial’ silver made the journey to the metropolis to receive official approval – for reasons of security and economy. It is a ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...