Auction highlights this month include an outstanding example of early Ming porcelain and a rare Nicholas Lancret painting
This glazed terracotta roundel by Andrea della Robbia was made for a palace that was promptly destroyed
Why Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pastels are becoming increasingly attractive to art collectors of all sorts
The Crommelynck brothers worked with the greatest artists of the 20th century to produce extraordinary prints, some of which will soon come to auction
The Parisian fair returns this month to celebrate one of the most instinctive and timeless of mediums
Early reported sales at TEFAF Maastricht were strong, particularly among Old Master dealers
Technical research offers assurances to private collectors – but they must exercise caution
This lapis lazuli vessel is the work of one of a famous dynasty of Milanese lapidaries, and a market rarity
Two liveried servants bear trays of food in this charming 18th-century tile painting attributed to Vicente Navarro
This unpublished Book of Hours was possibly illustrated by three of the most original artists working in Paris in the 15th century
Ori Gersht meticulously recreated a Fantin-Latour, flash froze it and then blew it up, in order to capture a moment of destruction
Large Sawos totemic figures such as this were hung on cult houses and dwellings to represent powerful ancestral forces
This rare example of a Dutch doll's house contains almost 200 unique silver miniatures and Chinese porcelain dated around 1700
More than 90 dealers ranging widely across art, antiques, and contemporary design come together to celebrate the fair's 25th anniversary
Ukrainian avant-garde artist Anatoly Petritsky, designed various productions in Kharkov in the 1920s, including Puccini’s Turandot
Representations of and allusions to the six rivers and their associated classical poems were popular among Edo printmakers in Japan
Wolfgang Heimbach, once a court painter to Frederick III, captures the rich incidental detail of this rustic laundry scene
These 16th-century alabaster putti have been attributed to one the greatest Spanish Renaissance sculptors, Alonso Berruguete
The bizarre story of how an altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes was transformed into a marriage portrait of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
This etching of a woman beside a stove, part of a group made in the 1650s, may be Rembrandt’s finest print of a nude
This carving was part of a colossal figure carved with the likeness of King Amenhotep IV that once adorned an 18th Dynasty temple
This Mongolian bronze features a benevolent Buddhist divinity embracing his consort symbolising the merging of wisdom and compassion
Clare Belfrage's technique involves drawing with fine threads of cane glass across blown glass forms to produce dramatic works
This unusual 16th-century portrait of a finely dressed black woman by Annibale Carracci comes with an impressive provenance
