Works showing quiet and comfortable domestic settings feature prominently in the output of the prolific French artist Henri Lebasque (1865-1937). While he also painted lavish interiors, nudes and post ...

The British government has temporarily blocked the export of a group of 19th century Hindu paintings in the hope a UK institution will raise funds to buy them. The c.1810 pictures are from a Hindu ...

A cello bow by fêted maker François-Xavier Tourte is to be offered for sale on December 4 at Vichy Enchères with an estimate of €300,000-350,000. Made in 1815-20, it could eclipse the current auction ...

It was very much a local concern and local is the best word to describe the scope of factory and its wares, the geographical spread of its original clientele and, by and large, the nature of its ...

The 23-year-old auction record for Mouseman furniture has been broken by Hawleys in North Cave, East Yorkshire.

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 ...

Burmantofts Pottery was born out of James Holroyd’s architectural brickworks, taking advantage of the rich local deposits of both coal and clay. However, today, the church built in Shakespeare Street ...

A church in north-west London is appealing for help to recover a stolen chair. The specially made item - one of a pair - disappeared from St Cuthbert’s Church in Fordwych Road, We… ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Different from the simple overglaze 'bat' printed wares produced at the Worcester and Caughley factories from the 1750s, Spode's ingenious method involved first the engraving of a design onto a copper ...

A Paris court has delayed the sale of the earliest-known calculator. Scheduled for sale at Christie’s in Paris on November 19, the auction of the scientific instrument w… ...