Lot 167. The Orloff Service of Catherine the Great: A set of twelve Louis XV silver-gilt plates, Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers, Paris, 1770. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 USD. Lot sold 90,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's the rims applied with running laurel with acanthus...

Catherine the Great's silver vegetable dishes estimated at £30,000-50,000 for the pair. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- Two spectacular silver vegetable dishes from dinner services used by the 18th century Russian Empress, Catherine the Great, are to be sold...

Pendant. Reddish-pink tourmaline, gold, enamel. 18th century. This beautiful reddish-pink gem the size of a chicken egg and weighing 260,86 carats was brought from Holland to France and then to Bohemia. Then it found its way from Prague to Stockholm where...

An impressive three-row natural pearl and diamond necklace, mounted by Cartier, circa 1920 the three graduating strands composed of two hundred and twenty-four natural pearls, measuring 10.25 to 4.20mm, completed by an art deco clasp set with an old cushion-cut...