Decorative Art

The principal private collection of silver sold at Woolley & Wallis's latest specialist auction included a fine array of caddy spoons.

Range of Sèvres highlights from ancien regime to the empire periods sold in UK auctions

More Odundo ceramics pieces sell well at specialist auction house Maak

Shown here are two highlights from sales of Islamic & Indian art held by London salerooms recently.

This huge porcelain breakfast service was made to welcome Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their first visit to Scotland in 1842.

Sixteenth century Limoges work depicts underworld scene from Virgil’s The Aeneid

This rare pair of south Italian or Sicilian devotional plaques (capezzali) sold for £26,000 at Matthew Barton of Olympia Auctions in west London on May 25.

Extensive cross-section of design-themed objects offered in Edinburgh and London by same auction house

One of the highlights at Quittenbaum’s sale in Munich on June 8 is a Gallé vase from the period 1920-36.

Distinctive bureau cabinet form could have been intended for presentation to the guild.

It comes with great sadness to announce the death of Robyn Robb, who died on May 12 after a short and sudden illness.

Lowestoft porcelain is particularly admired for its sense of place: the close ties the factory on Crown Street (then Bell Lane) enjoyed with its local community in Norfolk and Suffolk between 1757-1802.

A gold medal proclaiming Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England – the only known example in private hands – comes for sale in Switzerland.

While Georgian spectacles are relatively common at auction, 17th century examples are a rarer beast.

The 27 animal models created for Beswick by Colin Melbourne represented the firm at its most avant garde.

Doyle in New York is selling the collection of the Belk department store heiress Sarah Belk Gambrell in various auctions this year.

Second sale since auction house move and name change is a British art pottery success