You’re looking at a mid-18th-century painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. You’re wondering, possibly, about the shoes. They’re high-heeled ...

If you spent any significant time huffing the digital fumes of Dust 2 over the last decade, you’ve witnessed a transformation ...

The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, has a more impressive jewelry box than most, which includes extraordinary heirloom pieces from the royal collection, from towering tiaras to glittering diamond ...

Highly Skilled craftsmanshipA ge with a meteoritic iron blade mounted in bronze was found in the tomb of a ruler from the eighth or ninth century B.C. The weapon represents an innovation in ...

Gu Guoqiang works on a filigree inlay phoenix coronet in his studio in Chongqing. [Photo by Deng Rui/China Daily] Former porcelain painter turned filigree designer breathing new life into ancient ...

While some antique emporiums seem to operate under the philosophy that older always means exorbitantly expensive, Salamanca ...

Figure 1. In this replica of a Qing dynasty hairpin, outlines of flowers, leaves, and other patterns were created with very thin gold threads using the filigree technique. Kingfisher feathers mounted ...

L'Epée 1839 captures the quiet elegance of rowing through a series of one-of-one Métiers d'Art reinterpretations of La ...

Great Lakes Antique Mall in Coloma, Michigan delivers exactly that heart-skipping sensation. While the bright yellow ...