Durnuvo Jewel Casket, Firm of Ovchinnikov, Russia, 1889, silver gilt, enamel and lapis lazuli. Photos: © Giovanni Lundardi Photography, courtesy Bowers Museum SANTA ANA, CA .- The Bowers Museum hosts The Tsars’ Cabinet, which highlights two hundred years...

By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I, 1835 and 1836 54 in. (137.2 cm.) high, including plinth £1,700,000-2,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011. LONDON.- A magnificent and important pair of porcelain vases by the...

A monumental silver wine cooler, weighing 168 pounds (11 ½ stone or 2597 oz.) and measuring well over a meter across, sold for £2,505,250 to an Asian private. Photo: Sotheby's LONDON.- The most important piece of English silver to come to the market in...

A pair of Magnificent Pair of Imperial Porcelain Vases, Period of Nicholas I (1825-1855), St Petersburg. Photo: Sotheby's LONDON.- Sotheby's announced that a pair of Magnificent Pair of Imperial Porcelain Vases, Period of Nicholas I (1825-1855), St Petersburg,...

The Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases sold for the extraordinary sum of £2,617,250. Photo: Sotheby's LONDON.- At Sotheby’s London this afternoon, a magnificent pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases sold for the extraordinary sum of £2,617,250, well...