
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oxford University Press, 2022, £26.99.
320 pages, hardback, 23.77 x 16.43 cm.
ISBN: 978-0197610473.
