The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86). It was acquired in a private sale from London dealer Daniel Katz ...

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 ...

Almost every sporting activity you can think of is represented in the memorabilia market and many sectors of the antiques industry have their own sporting sub-sector: silver, ceramics, paintings, ...

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 ...

Although now familiar to generations of children, the industrial process of die-casting only came into being towards the end of the First World War. Forcing a molten alloy into a mould under pressure ...

The latest Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh was dominated by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). The auction house said works by Mackintosh have "great ...

A painting by Terence Cuneo depicting the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath has sold for £60,000 at Sworders. Cuneo’s rendition of a famous news photograph of the momentous event had been expected to ...

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week A timed online auction at The Pedestal closing on April 24 includes this Geor… ...

A Victorian model of an RNLI lifeboat sailed past its £700-900 estimate to hammer down at £7500 (plu… ...

An archive of photographs, article notes and correspondence belonging to a Polish journalist documenting the Spanish Civil War sold above estimate at Doyle New York. Formed by Jan Winter (1907-1991), ...

The oldest known medieval Jewish artefact, a Kiddush cup from the 11th or 12th century, is being offered at Sotheby’s later this year. Examples of medieval Judaica are rare – less than two dozen ...

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.