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 ...

Back with a new spot in the calendar, highlights of FAB Paris include a cross-collecting exhibition between six dealerships and a showcase of 18th century decorative arts.

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.

An early 17th-century shaped linen ruffler, believed to be the only known example to ever appear at auction, was hammered down at £230,000 – 30-times its estimate – in south London. Museums from the ...

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 … ...

Jewellery specialist Geoffrey Munn has placed his personal collection of historical jewels on permanent loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The 22 pieces, many of them created in deeply personal ...

A group of rare coins discovered hidden in a wall in a house in France sold at auction for €3m (£2.5m). More 2000 coins were stored in a chest which was built into the wall and hidden by a picture.

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 ...

Two pieces of furniture that belonged to Oscar Wilde are among the highl… ...

Serendipity has it that two Regency pollard oak and ebony inlaid desks attributed to George Bullock (c.1762-1818) come for sale on the same day this week. The near identical desks follow the pattern ...