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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An oak and polychrome carving of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's coat of arms has been rediscovered following research by St James’ art dealer Simon Dickinson. The firm believes it is the “only contemporary ...

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… ...

Christie’s reported a 20% year-on-year rise in the total for its evening sale of Modern British and Irish Art in London – the first auction in this category to take place under the firm’s updated rate ...

However, the Poole Pottery, as it became known, is now remembered as the maker of instantly recognisable Art Deco ware and the striking wares of the 1960s which marked it among the most innovative of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...