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Gustave le Gray is well known today as a pioneering French photographer but not as a painter.

This Japanese Meiji-era cloisonné vase decorated with wisteria by Namikawa Yasuyuki will feature in a US auction.

This pair of Indian gem-encrusted gold and champlevé enamel arm bracelets or bazubands are expected to bring £5000-7000 at Chiswick Auctions’ Islamic Art – Property of a European Collector sale in London on October 28.

More images survive depicting Fath ‘Ali Shah (r.1797-1834) than of any other Qajar monarch, the result of an enormous effort to replicate images of the ruler for display throughout his realm.

Illustrated here is a complete deck of James Moxon’s ‘Geometrical’ cards, each bearing figures of scientific instruments and dating from the mid-1690s.

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden but peaceful passing of John Lines.

Enthusiasts who feel British enamel advertising signs are becoming overpriced may spare a thought for collectors in the US.

Depictions of north Africa and the Middle East became commonplace in Western art as the Orientalist art movement reached its height in the 19th century.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a portrait of the first black Shakespearean actor to gain international fame selling in the US.

Two classic country house ‘garden’ form 17th century examples show their mettle

Largest group of artist’s works to be offered was consigned to Essex auction house by daughter.

A portrait in profile of Winifred Knights (1899-1947) by her husband and fellow artist Thomas Monnington (1902-76) is among the offerings at a major double exhibition of drawing in London this month.

I’m writing in the hope that readers might give me a view on whether a recent experience of mine is or is not common practice among regional auction houses.

Collection gathered in by a local farmer comes to auction in North Yorkshire

Four auction records were set in the first 90 minutes of a recent four-day comics and comic art auction conducted by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium).