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A piece that holds the record for a Moorcroft vase at auction returns to the rostrum this week. The flambé Carp vase, last sold in 2012, comes up for sale at Woolley & Wallis this week with a … ...
The stricken Moorcroft pottery business will have a member of the founder's family involved with the firm for the first time in nearly 20 years. William J Moorcroft, grandson of founder William ...
Over recent years, works painted in India by Arthur William Devis (1762-1822) have become a valuable proposition. The artist, who was the son of the renowned portrait painter Arthur Devis (c.1711-87), ...
Two pieces of furniture that belonged to Oscar Wilde are among the highl… ...
From dealers and auction houses, here is the latest round up of people moves. Terence Woodcock, known as Terry, will be ...
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Woolley & Wallis offering the silver collection of the late dealer Michael Baggott this summer.
Furniture experts fined and sentenced following a long-running French fake furniture scandal A court in Pontoise, near Paris ...
A rediscovered portrait of author George Eliot will go on display at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery. Art dealer Andrew Sim of Sim Fine Art discovered the chalk pastel portrait of a young woman at an au ...
The Haughton International Seminar returns this year with a focus on invention and imitation.
The first oil painting ever exhibited by JMW Turner (1775-1851) in his lifetime will be offered at Sotheby’s this summer. The ‘lost’ landscape depicting a former hot spa in Bristol was painted by the ...
A scarce Louis Vuitton wardrobe steamer trunk dating from the 1920s or earlier sold for £130,000 hammer (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at John Nicholson’s on June 11. The saleroom in Fernhurst, Surrey, ...
London dealer Harry Moore-Gwyn’s summer exhibition features 65 works by 20th century artists both well known and lesser known names.