April 2023
- Exclusive
- BNPL
Aussie start-up turns professionals into art collectors
The company’s boss, Paul Becker, relocated to London last year and scored one of the first investments from a venture capital arm set up by Christie’s.
- Paul Smith
November 2022
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
Eight highlights of Anne Schofield’s $2m Powerhouse jewellery gift
Eva Czernis-Ryl, curator of decorative arts and design at the museum, considers the significance of these treasures in a collection spanning four centuries.
- Life & Leisure
June 2022
From four locked safes comes Australia’s largest jewellery auction
More than 10,000 items belonging to a reclusive Melbourne jeweller are being sold in the country’s largest single estate jewellery auction.
- Natasha Boddy
March 2021
Ancient mosaic returns to Rome after stint as a New York coffee table
A 2000-year-old Roman artifact that once graced an emperor’s ship, before ending up in the home of a Manhattan antiquities dealer, is now in an Italian museum.
- Elisabetta Povoledo
November 2020
Three held in Berlin over $1.6b jewel heist
The theft at the Green Vault in Dresden has been described as the 'biggest art heist in modern history'.
- Justin Huggler
August 2020
Prosecutors may pursue looted Cambodian relics
The death of an antiquities expert accused of illegally trading Khmer artefacts has thrown hopes of recovering missing works into turmoil.
- Nicola Smith and Josie Ensor
November 2019
Doctor delivers clocks and Regency wares to market
A Sydney obstetrician's collection of Regency furniture and a rare automaton clock will be auctioned at Leonard Joel next month.
- Peter Fish
October 2019
Meet the Paris designers creating the world's most sumptuous interiors
Sorcerers who never apprenticed, these four designers are masters of their craft in Paris. Now they're taking on the world.
- Stephen Todd
June 2019
Gems of the Orient set to sparkle at auction
Antique jewels from India and Pakistan are among the riches that are up for sale at Leski in Melbourne as the auction house diversifies.
- Peter Fish
'Missing' Lewis Chessman could fetch $1.8m at auction
A chess piece bought for a few pounds in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen.
May 2019
A stolen Hamilton letter exposes the sketchy world of fine art
That dusty old junk cluttering your attic just might be worth millions.
- Roxanne Roberts