A pair of comfortable Gonse chairs brought last year’s sales to a splendid end, with Old Master drawings set to star at auctions and fairs early in 2026

After years in the doldrums, the tide may be finally changing for brown furniture, if last month’s sale of Michael Eaton’s collection is a sign of things to come

BRAFA, the annual art and antiques fair held in the Belgian capital, remains alluring at 71 years of age by combining old favourites with new discoveries

Rarely does a ‘working’ diamond tiara come up for sale, so interest sky-rocketed when a tiara worn by Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy – Dowager Countess of Airlie and Lady of the Bedchamber to the late Q

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The sale of a Fabergé imperial egg and a 15th-century triptych made headlines last year, but one of the most powerful pieces was a painting by Richard Parkes Bonington showing what he could have become, had he not died so young