Gold, platinum, faience, diamond, jade, lapis, coral, ivory, onyx and enamel pendant-necklace. Photo courtesy Sotheby's A rectangular faience plaque with intaglios of birds ‘en filade’ in three registers, with a gold frame bordered by blue enamel, reversing...

Art Deco Gold, Silver, Lapis, Nephrite Jade, Mother-of-Pearl and Diamond Desk Clock, Cartier, France. Photo Doyle The spherical lapis case divided by bands of gold, spaced by continuous gold circles, accented by triangle-shaped mother-of-pearl inlay,...

Portugese Ewer.©Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. OXFORD.- The Ashmolean announces that it has received a major collection of gold and silver objects of the Renaissance and Baroque periods from the collector, the late Michael Wellby (1928–2012)....