Collecting whitby jet

As co-head of the UK jewellery department at Bonhams, Kate Flitcroft works with many rare and valuable gemstones. Among the many jewels she’s encountered, she’s captivated by carved emeralds from the

Clear quartz, cold to the touch, but burning to the skin, hinted at great healing and scrying powers, especially when fashioned into a sphere. The Antiques Roadshow jewellery specialist Geoffrey Munn has a talisman of his own

Colour co-ordinated Buccellati has spoiled us with two ...

Britain is one of the last constitutional monarchies in the world, and the king or queen still plays a ceremonial role in the governance of the state. When Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, she was bur

There was no shortage of glitz and glamour at last month’s sale of the late Countess of Airlie’s jewellery, but an exquisite tiara shone the brightest

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land