Han Coray, the collector that made the impossible possible
History of the first collector of African art in Switzerland, a man called Han Coray (1880-1974) but also known as Karl Heinrich Ulrich Anton Coray, Han Coray-Stoop and Heinrich Corray. Prototype [...]
Fabergé eggs: the great jewlery at the Tsar court
Between 1885 and 1917, Karl Fabergé realized more than fifty masterpieces of jewelry best known as Fabergé Eggs: unique jewels created for the Russian Romanov dynasty as symbol of the last [...]
The splendour of silver: the vermeil technique
During the eighteenth century it was conceived a metallurgical technique capable of making silver immutable and even more shiny. This process, called vermeil, is still used today for the [...]
A brief history of enameling
Origins Around 1600 BC, in Mycenae and Cyprus some artisans of glass and metal discovered a material similar to the stone, capable to melt on the surface of gold, silver, bronze and copper and to [...]
Enameling: etymology and technique
Originated by the populations of the Mediterranean over three millennia ago in order to add color to precious metals, enameling is a decorative technique that strongly joins a vitreous compound [...]