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Leading Bonhams’ Fine Glass and British Ceramics sale in London on November 26-27 is a recently discovered Limehouse porcelain cat.

Premium-inclusive total achieved in Edinburgh underlines the quality of lots on offer

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of the sale of property from Harewood House at Christie's

Maps and documents relating to Quaker family come up at Essex auction house centuries later

Like his younger brother Lorenzo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) learnt his art in the studio of his father Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Hot on the heels of its Gherardesca exhibition, Albert Amor has just unveiled The Anthony Birtwistle Collection at its gallery in St James’s.

A focus on four Clarice Cliff chargers sold in October at two different salerooms

For many decades, from the middle of the 16th century, the south German city of Augsburg was, alongside Nuremberg, the leading clockmaking centre in Germany.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

In 1920 the artist Christopher Wood (1901-30) came to Paris, having been invited by the French collector Alphonse Kahn.

Published in 1598, John Florio’s 'A Worlde of Wordes, or most Copious, and Exact Dictionary in Italian and English' is considered the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Copies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy just don’t get much better than the set shown here.

From the 14th century onwards, locksmith guilds were well established in major cities throughout Europe.

Mid-17th century piece of furniture bought in a Berlin saleroom in 1928 sells again in the German capital

Depictions of birdcages on Delft tile-pictures or plaques are not exactly common, but they are not nearly as rare as actual ceramic cages from the Dutch manufacture.

Around 1621, the Flemish painter Frans Francken II created a type of Who’s Who of mythological couples, when he painted his 20in x 2ft 1in (50 x 64cm) 'Triumph of Love' on a copper panel.

A collection of watercolours amassed by the expert Iolo Williams found appeal despite the challenging market