One of my favourite annual events in London is the Punch & Judy Festival which is always held on the second Sunday in May at the churchyard of St Paul’s Covent Garden. This year it is to be held on ...

O bscure clumps of stone are turned into sparkling jewels that we treasure and pass down through our families. For most of us ...

While some of the interiors were done in the grandest neoclassical style, with elaborate foliate plasterwork ceilings and damask walls, others were built speculatively as rentals and finished with ...

An aqua-colored ceramic flower pot stands on a grey background and is shown from its side. The inside is also aqua. On the sides are vertical lines widely spaced out. Tan lines are along the edges and ...

A treasured Quran manuscript dating back to the Ottoman era is among the Islamic arts items to be auctioned at Sotheby’s ...

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Frederick and Eufemia Wulsin, In Memory of Mr. Richard Hobart, On Behalf of His Children and Grandchildren The Harvard Art Museums encourage the ...

Equally key to collecting is the subject matter decorating the glass. It can range from simple foliate motifs around the rim to elaborate portraits or landscapes covering virtually the entire surface ...

The centerfield design features oak leaf and flower, sprig and floral, foliate swag, and leaf carpet medallions. All four of the borders depict the No. Fragment of a 4-harness, overshot coverlet ...

China’s art market remains far larger and more extensive than India’s, but the Indian results highlight the country’s growing ...

Auctioneer David Kleiweg de Zwaan intonated, gesticulated, congratulated as he nudged up the price of a Chinese 18th-century “large and magnificent imperial” zitan mirror stand from its US$ ...