A topaz demi-parure, Portugese, circa 1780. Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ( €5,500 - 8,300). Photo Bonhams. Comprising a brooch/pendant and a pair of earrings, each of girandole design, set throughout with vari-cut topaz in foiled closed back settings and mounted...

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)....