Recent books on jewellery

The following books of interest to jewellery historians have been published recently and noted by Jewellery History Today. For lists of books published earlier, click here. Titles with a reference to JHT at the end are reviewed in that issue. To read the review (members only), click here.
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Relicarios: The Forgotten Jewels of Latin America.

Martha Egan

Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2020, $75.

276 pages, hardback, 30.5 x 26.7 cm

ISBN: 978-1934491744

Lover’s Eyes. Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection.

Elle Shushan, Graham C. Boettcher, Stephen Lloyd.

D Giles Limited, London, 2021, £40.

280 pages, hardback, 18 x 18 cm.

ISBN: 978-1911282938

Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity: A Global Archaeological Perspective.

Hannah V. Mattson.

Oxbow Books, 2021, $50.

224 pages, paperback, 9.41 x 6.69 inches. ‎

ISBN: ‎ 978-1789255959

Kindle $26.12

The Smithsonian National Gem Collection―Unearthed: Surprising Stories Behind the Jewels.

Abrams, 2021, £21.99.

192 pages, paperback, 21.97 x 25.53 cm.

ISBN: ‎978-1419745805

Tadema Gallery London: Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s.

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson.

‎ Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £75.

520 pages, hardback, 22 x 29 cm.

ISBN: 978-3897905986

Chinese Contemporary Jewelry Design.

Bifei Cao.

Schiffer, 2020, $60.

320 pages, hardback, 11 x 8.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0764360282

Cipullo: Making Jewelry Modern.

Renato Cipullo, Vivienne Becker.

Assouline, 2021, €195.

212 pages, paperback, 28 x 36 cm.

ISBN: 978-1614289593

Tiffany Jewelry Book.

The Morse Museum.

Applewood Books, 2021, $49.95.

36 pages, hardback, 10.79 x 12 inches.

ISBN: 978-1429096355

Reproduction of the design book of Meta Katherine Overbeck, c. 1914–33, Tiffany, New York

A Study of Navajo Concha Belts.

D. Richards, K. Richards, J. Clark, J. Miller.

Schiffer, 2021, $81.

656 pages, hardback, 11 x 8.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0764359644

The Real Thing. Jewellery and Objects by Kim Buck.

Jorunn Veiteberg.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £42.

184 pages, hardback, 22 × 28 cm, English, Danish, Chinese.

ISBN: 978-3897906129

Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019.

Barbara Paris Gifford.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £42.

168 pages, hardback, 19.5 x 24.5 cm.

ISBN: 978-3897906020

Ornament in Transition: Silke Trekel Jewellery 1995-2020.

Ellen Maurer Zilioli

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £32.

112 pages, paperback, 22 x 27.8 cm, English. German.

ISBN: 978-3897906136

Published in association with an exhibition at the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau.

The Jewellery Box.

Jorunn Veiteberg.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £35.

552 pages, hardback, 14.8 x 20.7 cm.

ISBN: 978-3897906198

Stones of the Grand Bazaar: Meváris Jewellery From Istanbul.

Altinbas Fatma.

Mondadori Electa, 2021, £90.

224 pages, hardback, 14 x 9.8 inches.

ISBN: 978-8891830135

Halsringe: Erkennen. Bestimmen. Beschreiben.

Angelika Abegg-Wigg, Ronald Heynowski.

Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV), 2021, £18.

176 pages, paperback, 17 x 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-3422982864

Published in Bestimmungsbuch Archäologie series no.7

Treasures of the Deccan.

Vol I. Jewels of the Nizams.

Usha R Balakrishnan, Deepthi Sasidharan.

216 pages.

Vol II. Painted Visions

Navina Najat Haidar.

100 pages.

Graf Media, 2018, Rs 8500.

2 vol, hardback in slipcase, 27 x 34 cms.

ISBN: 978-8190618830

Dior Joaillerie: The Dictionary of Victoire de Castellane.

Victoire de Castellane, Olivier Gabet.

Rizzoli International Publications, 2020, £115.

352 pages, hardback, 24.64 x 31.75 cm.

ISBN: 978-0847863365

Reinhold Ziegler: Transgression: Jewellery Objects.

Heike Endter, Reinhold Ziegler.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021, £32.

72 pages, paperback, 24.84 x 26.92 cm.

ISBN: 978-3897906044