When it comes to jewelry that does double duty as art, you really can't beat the beauty of a cameo. Some of the most valuable cameos are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they feature ...

It seems unlikely that the Mickey Mouse souvenir tie tack we pick up at Disney World today will be a prized piece of antique jewelry a century from now. But who knows? Many of the lava cameos sold as ...

Every art, whether major or minor, has its capital: Music has Vienna; fashion, Milan; haute cuisine, Paris. Even the somewhat obscure art of cameo-carving has its acknowledged center: Torre del Greco ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A sardonyx cameo of a Grecian god, framed in diamonds and set on a deep red silk cord, caught the eyes of many ...