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 ...

London’s Natural History Museum has acquired a newly identified dinosaur from Mayfair dealership David Aaron.

A 1898 Martin Brothers bird jar and cover caricaturing the Sir Edward George Clarke QC that sold for $140,000 (£117,000) at Phillips in New York in December 2018. The subject was the barrister and ...

The ‘Mambury’ set of 10 apostle spoons, made by the prolific and renowned Daniel Cary, London 1607. Silver spoons with finials in the form of the Apostles – each with his identifying emblem – were ...

A table centrepiece modelled as two pairs of dancers, one of Clarice Cliff’s ‘Age of Jazz’ figures (model no 434), that sold for £15,000 at Woolley & Wallis in March 2018. There are five figures from ...

The galleries on Cork Street in Mayfair, London, have joined forces on a multi-part exhibition running all year.

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

A 3½in (8.5cm) Lowestoft royal commemorative mug from c.1790-95 inscribed ‘Long Live The King’. The design was hitherto unrecorded and it was thought to relate to a period when George III was in ...

Privateer glasses are a collectable class of 18th century wine glass, engraved with a sailing vessel to the bowl and an inscription linked to the ship. Some were possibly produced in the port city of ...

The Regency style, spanning the period 1810-30, is characterised by bold use of classical ornament drawn from Greek and Roman sources and the exotic touches provided by the growth of empire. This burr ...

Political caricatures often appear at auction as part of group lots, such as this example of Thomas Rowlandson’s ‘Accomodation Ladder’ which appeared as part of an album of 43 prints at Dominic Winter ...

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 ...