Jewelry transcends aesthetics, blending cultural significance, artistic beauty and financial stability for collectors.
A guide to vintage jewelry as told by collectors, jewelers, dealers, and authors, plus key brands to look out for and where ...
Though Princess Margaret’s ring was rarely photographed, we do know that for his proposal in 1960, Antony Armstrong-Jones presented Margaret with a ruby and diamond ring. The center ruby was a ...
A century on from a seminal Paris exhibition, being marked by a series of shows, designers continue to reference the style ...
And like anything in today’s world, engagement rings follow current trends, with brides preferring different looks from year ...
Can you get all that down on a diamond bracelet ... vice president and senior specialist in the jewelry department at Christie’s, "a Van Cleef 1920s narrative bracelet would be one of them." ...
Swift is no stranger to rich mom-coded accessories, recently stepping out in a $10,995 Effy Jewelry sapphire and diamond necklace, a $32,970 Retrouvai ruby and diamond ring, and 30-carat canary ...
For me, as a jewelry historian ... very commercially available in their cultural and synthetic form in the 1920s; ruby, sapphire and pearl prices collapsed, compounded by the big depression ...
For example, diamond is ... Corundum (ruby and sapphire) is relatively hard—9 on the Mohs scale. It has excellent toughness and no cleavage, which is a tendency to break when struck. This makes it a ...
From top-right: Lanternes Mystérieuses transformable necklace; Carte au Trésor clip in yellow gold and rose gold, with a ruby and diamonds; Dieu du Vent clip and Danseur de Tikal clip in gold, with ...
Our collection has grown to include more than 600 gemstones and 150 pieces of antique and contemporary jewelry ... to the Mohs hardness scale, with diamonds scoring a perfect 10. (The next hardest ...