What is your decorative art worth?
Researched valuation of decorative art — porcelain, silver, glass, enamels. Maker attribution, hallmark reading, cited auction comparables.
Decorative art covers the objects designed to be used and lived with: porcelain, silver, glass, enamels, and metalware. Each sub-category has its own vocabulary of makers, hallmarks, and condition signals. Pick a sub-category below to see the form your written report will take.
Decorative art is the broad category that covers the objects designed to be used and lived with — porcelain, silver, glass, enamels, metalware, and the ornamental side of furniture. Each sub-category has its own vocabulary of makers, marks, and condition signals, and each rewards a careful researched figure over a guess.
Our written report covers maker attribution (the documented factory, silversmith, or studio); the marking system that confirms standard and period; condition factors specific to the material (hairlines and restoration on ceramics; removed monograms and weighted bases on silver); and three to five cited comparable sales from the major auction houses. Pick a sub-category below to see the form your report will take.
Where decorative-art value comes from
Three factors define the figure on almost every decorative-art piece. Maker — a documented factory or studio outprices an anonymous piece of similar age and quality by an order of magnitude or more. Period — an 18th-century hand-painted or hand-chased piece normally outprices a 19th-century transfer-printed or stamped equivalent of the same form. Condition — and here the language is category-specific: 'hairline' and 'restored' for ceramics; 'monogram removed', 'weighted', 'after-marked' for silver; 'sun damage' and 'foxing' for paper-based decorative pieces. Our valuation report names the language category-by-category.
Upload photos of your piece and we'll send back a documented valuation with the comparable sales we used — lot number, hammer price, and venue — drawn from Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonhams, Heritage, and the specialist sale records. We state a confidence level on the figure and tell you what would move it. We don't buy and we don't take consignment. Your first valuation is on us.
Reviewed by The Findthevalueof research team. Last reviewed 17 Jun 2026.