Sotheby's Archives - Antique Collecting

Hamilton Aphrodite makes millions

Seventy years after it was last seen at a New York auction in 1949, ‘The Hamilton Aphrodite’, the 1st or

A painting by L.S. Lowry entitled The Auction is set to be the star of Sotheby’s Modern British Art auction

A painting by LS Lowry entitled Going to the Match, featuring one of his earliest iconic depictions of spectators thronging

A tiara passed down through generations of the Royal family of Italy will star as a highlight of Sotheby’s flagship

While the release of the latest James Bond film No Time to Die may have been delayed until next year,

Rare Items, memorabilia and collectables related to The Beatles are for sale at Sotheby’s. Following the record-breaking success of the

An insightful questionnaire filled in by the playwright Oscar Wilde in 1877, on the cusp of finding fame, has sold

The finalBreakfast at Tiffany’s typescript, covered in hundreds of the author Truman Capote’s handwritten edits, has sold to an anonymous

A self-portrait by the great Dutch master, Rembrandt van Reign sold for over £14.5 million at Sotheby’s yesterday evening. Chased

A watch created for King George III by the 18th/19th-century watchmaking genius Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) could make a million pounds