Ahead of next year's event, galleries from Asia Week New York have seected some potential gift idea.

A Dickin Medal – the animal equivalent of the VC – has sold for £50,000 at coin and medal auctioneers Morton and Eden. One of just 75 awards of its kind, the citation for this medal reads: ‘For ...

A signed study for a major work by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) drew significant competition when it appeared at West Sussex auction house Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium).

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 ...

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...

While the origins of the game date back over a millennium (early precursors have been traced to the 6th century AD), its popularity in Europe really started to grow in the Medieval period as the game ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

The pair, once stolen from the Judy Garland Museum, sold for almost ten times their estimate at Heritage Auctions ...

A complete collection of the books published by Kelmscott Press – the passion project of William Morris (1834-96) – will be offered at auction for the first time at Bonhams in New York on December 17.

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The Worcester factory was founded at Warmstry House in 1751 by a deed of partnership with 15 members. The period from foundation to 1783, when it was acquired by Thomas Flight, is known as the First ...

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...