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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.
For detailed bibliographies of books on European traditional jewellery and silver marks, click here (members only).


Other resources - The Goldsmiths' Company Library

The Goldsmiths' Company Library is a reference-only collection which specialises in silver, jewellery, and hallmarking. The library collections include over 8,000 books and more than 15,000 images. Other resources include journals, films and special research collections such as the Twining Collection on regalia and royal jewellery.

Approximately one quarter of the Library holdings are searchable in the online catalogue here.


Entre ouros e pedrarias na Coleção IFC / Amidst gold and gems in the IFC Collection.

Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa, Rosa Maria dos Santos Mota.

Coleção IFC, 2022, price.

271 pages, format, 28 cm, Portuguese, English.

ISBN: 978-9893337202

Gioielli a Firenze - Jewels in Florence: Archivio Fratelli Peruzzi 1880 – 1970.

Bianca Cappello (SJH member).

Casa Editrice Sillabe S.r.l, Livorno, 2022, €28.

240 pages, paperback, 21 x 29.7 cm, Italian, English.

ISBN: 978-8833403403.

ISBN: 978-8833403434, hardback version, €32.

Diamanti rubini e smeraldi. Il linguaggio dei gioielli nei dipinti degli Uffizi.

Silvia, Malaguzzi.

Nomos Edizioni, 2023, €79.

296 pages, hardback, 25.5x 30.5 cm, Italian.

ISBN:‎ 979-1259580740

The Jewellery Collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

Dominique Forest, Karine Lacquemant, Évelyne Possémé.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 2023, £30.

40 pages, paperback, 26 x 20 cm.

ISBN: 978-2383140061

Updated version of the guide published in 2008

Yewn: Contemporary Art Jewels and the Silk Road.

Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld.

ACC Art Books, 2023, £75.

276 pages, hardback, 29.24 x 28.63 cm.

ISBN: 978-1788841092

Enchanting Imagination: The Objets d’Art of André Chervin and Carvin French Jewelers.

Debra Schmidt Bach.

D Giles Limited, London, 2023, £29.95.

144pages, hardback, 25 x 21 cm.

ISBN: 9781913875473

Published in association with an exhibition at New-York Historical Society

Glanz & Geheimnis: Pracht und Macht des orientalischen Schmucks.

Peter Hösli.

Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag, 2023, €30.

192 pages, hardback, 21.6 x 23.6 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3961762149

English-language version:

Shine & Mystery: The splendour and power of oriental jewellery.

ISBN:‎ 978-3961762170

Published in association with an exhibition at the Knauf Museum, Iphofen, Germany

The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz.

Sarah Davis (ed).

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2023, £42.

208 pages, hardback, 23 x 26.5 cm.

ISBN 978-3897906655

Published in association with an exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton

Rot | Therese Hilbert | Red. Schmuck 1966–2020 Jewelry.

Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (ed).

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2023, €38.

360 pages, hardback, 19 × 25.7 cm, English, German.

ISBN: 978-3897906235

Published in association with an exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung, Munich

The Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture, and Identity.

Marcel Rosa-Salas, Isabel Attyah Flower.

Clarkson Potter, 2023, $30.

256 pages, hardback, 19.8 x 22.3 cm. ‎

ISBN: 978-0593235294

A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting.

Saskia Coenen Snyder.

Oxford University Press, 2022, £26.99.

320 pages, hardback, ‎23.77 x 16.43 cm.

ISBN: 978-0197610473.



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