“As confections of marquetry and gilt bronze, [Boulle’s clocks] epitomize the spectacle of the French Baroque,” Alexander Collins, a curator at the Wallace Collection, tells Artnet’s ...

Always a treasure trove of beautiful and unusual antiques, Tennants’ Country House Sale on 10th and 11th January will combine over 700 lots of paintings, ceramics, glass, works of art, furniture, rugs ...

Most probably he was inspired by the French National Exposition (Exposition Nationale ... been less easily forged than those ...

In the middle of 1843 the brilliant French mechanic and watchmaker Jean-Paul Garnier (best known for providing railway ...

Gifted by a French governor in India, this rhinoceros was perhaps the ... A major exhibition will open at the Science Museum featuring more than 20 resplendent mechanical clocks, called zimingzhong, ...

Two French Olympic swimmers, Clement Secchi and Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, have highlighted the poor condition of their bronze medals just months after the Paris Games ended. They join other Olympians ...

French bronze medal-winning Olympic swimmer Yohann Ndoye-Brouard wondered over the weekend whether a medal he captured is from this summer or 100 years ago. That's because the bronze he won in the ...

French Olympic swimmers Yohann Ndoye-Brouard and Clement Secchi have recently gone viral after posting social media photos of seemingly deteriorating bronze medals from this summer’s games that ...

The United Kingdom's first quantum clock will enhance the accuracy of navigation, communication, and weapon systems.

Antiquity, December 2024. (Credit: Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024.) Researchers in England uncovered the skeletal remains of 37 Bronze Age individuals, and further analysis indicated that ...

Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed archaeologists to a grim chapter of British prehistory that occurred during the Early Bronze Age.