This late Victorian winged-heart brooch-pendant, with blue guilloché enamel angel wings flanking a cabochon opal heart, pink topaz heart drop and diamond accent surmount was created by Child and Child – probably one of the most...

At auction this November in the sale of Fine & Decorative Interiors, a pair of Regency giltwood sofas that have graced the rooms of two extremely grand English houses. The first of these residences is Ditchley Park, the Grade I...

The name tourmaline comes from the Sinhalese tura mali, meaning “stone of mixed colours.” With its wide range of colours spanning the full spectrum, from pale peachy pink to bright blue, forest green, vivid yellow and through to...

In his satirical etching of 1800, Hearts for the year 1800, Thomas Rowlandson depicts seven ladies each wearing a heart-shaped gemstone necklace; the caption accompanying the figure wearing topaz presents the stone as ‘a golden...