The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone, MoMA’s “Starry Night” — major museums often have one must-see item that singlehandedly draws visitors from around the world. For the ...
Recently acquired by the Mayfair-based luxury house, this “rough” (common parlance in precious-stone circles) piece of jadeite features many of the hues with which this silicate mineral can be blessed ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Asprey chair John Rigas’s introduction to jade was during a trip to Yangon in Myanmar in 2014, during which he ...
A miniature Taishan Mountain is among the four jadeite "national treasures" housed at the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Wang Jing/China Daily] This miniature Taishan ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Curio is a CNN Style series spotlighting small objects and the big ideas behind them. The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone, MoMA’s “Starry Night” — major museums ...