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The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a late Tudor or early Stuart purse with a connection to Mary, Queen of Scots bringing remarkable competition at an auction in Skipton, North Yorkshire.

David Messum Fine Art was the stage for the glittering BADA Art Prize 2024 champagne reception

The wider market is increasingly selective, but Qing mark and period porcelain continues to shine in the saleroom.

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.

The cup awarded to the owner of 1948 winner Cottage Rake doubled its estimate at Graham Budd

Vendor looks to double their money after discovering Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘only surviving landscape’ on the back of equestrian portrait

The written note was from passenger Richard William Smith, who perished with 1500 others three days later

A 14th-century mosque lamp from Egypt or Syria achieved the highest price for a glass object at auction when it sold at four times estimate at Bonhams in London yesterday.

Sotheby’s is planning its first auction in Saudi Arabia in what will be the first sale to be held by an international auction house in the kingdom.

Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a needlework sampler by an 11-year-old 19th century schoolgirl depicting the Menai Bridge in Anglesey.