Glassware

Special piece comes from historian’s collection including items linked to the family home in Derbyshire

Presumably planned purchases rather than on the hoof, three unusual equine relics of the Battle of Waterloo appeared in separate salerooms within the same month.

This Loetz Klostermühle vase romped past its $600-1200 guide to hammer for $8500 (£6340) at World Auction Gallery (25% buyer’s premium) in East Meadow, New York.

While the Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley is undergoing major restoration work and drainage improvements, many contractors on site have had cause to thank the staff at bottle and advertising specialist BBR Auctions (20% buyer’s premium).

For centuries, the Imperial Glass Factory at St Petersburg catered to Russian royalty, producing top-of-the-line glass wares that were good enough to feature in their daughters’ dowries.

The 18th annual sale presented by Perfume Bottles Auction (20/25% buyer’s premium) took place on May 2. The online auction, conducted in New York by Ken Leach, served as the finale of the 2026 convention of the International Perfume Bottle Association (IFBA).

Two very different pieces of glass went way over the odds at a specialist sale at Dr Fischer (30% buyer’s premium) in Heilbronn.

Rare Renaissance item hammered at €450,000 is boosted by armorial for two significant families

London dealer Liliane Fawcett, who since 1984 has traded from Notting Hill as Themes and Variations, began acquiring Italian post-war glass just as the secondary market was forming.

Vases and other vessels employing the Primavera technique belong to the rarest types of glass produced in Murano.

Single-owner collection reflects both the port’s position linking trade routes and the artisans it attracted

Rediscovered during a routine valuation, a wheel-engraved glass goblet by master engraver Jacob Sang (1720-86) has sold at auction in the Netherlands.

It has been estimated there are between 500 and 1000 different types of marble-in-neck mineral water bottles based on the famous 1872 patent by Hiram Codd.

From 1897, when he joined Daum in Nancy, until his death in 1937, Henri Bergé was one of the leading designers at the firm.

Latest sale of props from renowned company features several surprises such as Spanish revivalist chairs

A recent sale marked the first time that the Geneseo, New York, house Cottone Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) has handled a piece of René Lalique (1860-1945) jewellery.

A Japonisme foo dog vase by Émile Gallé (1846-1904) hammered for $35,000 (£26,440) against a guide of $3000-5000 at Rago (27% buyer’s premium) in Lambertville, New Jersey.