All that glitters

'There’s something magical about pearls,’ thinks Matthew Thomas of Gatsby Jewellery. ‘They come from water, not the earth, which makes them unique among precious gems.’ Perhaps that’s why they’ve been

Hannah Betts lucks out with a neckful of bijoux boho jewels

A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar

How India, and a literary socialite, inspired Cartier’s most vibrant creation

A g lint of colourful rays caught her ...

The fate of an Elizabethan hoard