Sewn to the silk of Catherine the Great’s gowns, then vanished for a century. The unlikely tale of how her diamond flowers — and an Imperial Fabergé necklace — found their way back.
A Colombian gem, a late-Victorian convertible bangle, and the long arithmetic of a dynastic name.
How the Discovery of a Boy-King’s Tomb Rewrote the Grammar of Western Jewellery. Part II — The Jewelled Legacy: Maisons, Masterpieces, and the Eternal Return.
Arsen Yarman’s two-volume study restores nearly 2,000 Armenian goldsmiths to Ottoman history, tracing seals, signatures, and archival records that reveal the hidden authorship behind centuries of imperial jewellery and splendour.
How the Discovery of a Boy-King’s Tomb Rewrote the Grammar of Western Jewellery. Part I — The Awakening: From Napoleon to Tutankhamun.
Why do Kashmir sapphires command record prices at auction? Their legendary history, velvety blue, and why a lab certificate changes everything.
Saved for the nation after an extraordinary fundraising campaign, the Tudor Heart Pendant — a rare 16th-century jewel linked to the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon — now enters the British Museum collection.
Damaged during the October 2025 robbery at the Louvre yet miraculously spared from loss, the crown of Empress Eugénie is now at the heart of an exceptional restoration project. Nearly intact and rich in historical symbolism, the restoration of Empress Eugénie’s crown marks a new chapter of preservation, expertise, and cultural memory.
Opened at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris, ‘Joyaux Dynastiques’ brings together more than 140 royal and aristocratic jewels from the Al Thani Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and major international lenders. Set within a historic monument once home to the French Crown Jewels, the exhibition traces how gemstones and jewellery shaped dynastic power, courtly identity and personal expression across Europe, from the early modern period to the 20th century.
After a century of speculation, the Habsburg jewels—led by the legendary 137-carat Florentine Diamond—have resurfaced from a bank vault in Québec, Canada.