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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of auction house Sotheby’s reversing the commission structure it introduced just seven months ago.

Lyon & Turnbull will sell the art collection of the banker and financier Bernard Kelly (1930-2022) in London on January 15. The 314-lot sale, offering an eclectic mix of art antiques from Renaissance ...

A private collection of memorabilia commemorating Dambuster Guy Gibson (1918-1944) is to be auctioned on January 7 at Gildings Auctioneers in Leicestershire.

ATG wishes all our readers a very happy new year. The year ended with mixed feelings for the art and antiques trade as, over the course of 2024, the b… ...

As 2025 gets underway, most of the world's largest art and antiques fairs have already announced their dates for this year.

British artist Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937) is closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group, the famous collective of writers, intellectuals and artists in early 20th-century London.

The most viewed stories on this website over 2024 included news of Salvage Hunters' TV star Drew Pritchard consigning items from his personal collection at Dreweatts.

Bourne End Auction Rooms is set to offer for sale 111 lots from the Velma Young collection on January 7. Young (d.2023) was a ceramics collector who wrote a number of books on the subject including ...