An exceptional example of the Volvo estate – the archetypal antiques dealer’s car – comes for sale at Sworders this month. The 1989 240 GLT, a high-spec model from the final years of production of the ...

The J Paul Getty Museum has purchased a Hellenistic gold box-bezel ring, describing it as “one of the finest and best-preserved surviving examples of this ancient jewellery type”. The c.3rd-2nd ...

A recently rediscovered early work by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) has sold for €400,000 (£349,000) at Dorotheum. The modest bust-length portrait of the young Don José Álvarez de Toledo Osorio y ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Bonhams being acquired by Pemberton Asset Management ...

From illustrations to 18th century furniture and Asian ceramics to post-war modern British art, here is a round up of ...

A group of woodblocks from artists Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood that had been missing for 72 years have been recovered and purchased by two museums. Following the emergence of a group for sale ...

A good sum for a painting by Richard Eurich (1903-92) at an auction outside London came at Mallams’ latest Art & Music sale in Oxford. Consigned from a local deceased estate, the 19.5 x 2ft 6in (50 x ...

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

The second part of the Michael Baggott collection was a white-glove affair at Woolley & Wallis. All of the 120 lots offered in Salisbury on October 22 were sold, adding a further £80,000 to the £1… ...

An original work by Salvador Dali discovered in a Cambridge-based house clearance made a major return for the vendor at Cheffins on October 23. Titled Vecchio Sultano and measuring 15 x 11.5in (38 x ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

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 ...