Q: I would appreciate your knowledge in identifying these porcelain pictures that belong to a friend of mine. She grew up having these in her family home in Cuba. She is now in her 70’s having no ...

Dear Judy Campbell: Here are photographs of two gilt-edged porcelain plates that measure about 10 inches diameter that I have owned for a number of years. Both carry five-digit numbers under beehive ...

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe. By Suzanne Marchand. Princeton University Press; 544 pages; $35 and £30. IT SOUNDS LIKE a fairy-tale. A visionary alchemist, arrested by a tyrannical ...

Marla Aaron, a New York jeweler, arranged a collaboration with the German manufacturer Nymphenburg. By Tanya Dukes When Marla Aaron founded her namesake jewelry brand in 2012, the first piece she ...