2023

The most viewed stories on this website over 2023 included news of Hollywood actor Johnny Depp making a surprise visit to Lincolnshire’s Hemswell Antique Centres and arriving by helicopter.

Among the lots bringing the best interest at regional salerooms in 2023 were a work by Uruguay’s most important painter and an enigmatic portrait of a man with a pickaxe. Here we pick out five of the best results which were covered in ATG.

Ceramics specialist and Antiques Roadshow expert Henry Sandon has died aged 95.

ATG wishes all our readers a very happy Christmas.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare Joseph Rogers & Sons miniature penknife made for royal presentation that more than doubled estimate.

The latest annual Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu Annual Report has been published detailing the artworks and objects that will go on show to the public.

Bonhams revealed its sales totals for this year as Sotheby’s released a provisional figure.

Auction house Christie’s reported auction sales of $5bn (£4.06bn) in 2023, down 30% on 2022.

Two rare Old Master paintings from the Sienese school of the early 14th century that had been rediscovered in France have been snapped up by an American collector.

From baubles and brooches to a turkey tureen, here are six festive inspired items at auction.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a dealer at Old Spitalfields Antiques Market being surprised by an early morning chance discovery.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes an extremely rare ebony veneered English table clock signed for Ambrose Gardner that more than doubled its estimate at auction.

A bronze statue created through 3D scanning the skeleton of a juvenile T-rex has been installed in London by antiquities specialist David Aaron.

A bottle vase by the famed studio potter Hans Coper which was owned by the world-renowned sculptor Henry Moore has been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the £600,000 price tag.

The independent review of the British Museum in the wake of thefts from its collection has been published.

Harry Potter continues to bring big bids at auction especially for the earliest hardback editions

With estimates from £1000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a sleeping ‘imperial poem’ panel of plaques awakened at a New Jersey auction.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a hand painted ornithological dinner service that featured in the famous Lowther Castle sale in 1947.

A pair of Venetian scenes by Canaletto (1697-1768) topped Christie’s latest Old Master sale in London.