Originally published in 2007 by the British Museum Press, London.

This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various

Porcelain imported from China was the most highly coveted new medium in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-­century Europe. Its pure white color, translucency, a

From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in