Lecture Programme 1990-4
1990
29 January Jack Ogden
From Cleopatra to Constantine: Jewellery in Roman Egypt
1 March Susan Youngs
Tradition and Change in fine Celtic Metalwork of the sixth to ninth centuries AD
2 April Alexander Herzog von Württemberg
Jewellery in France: Unknown Masterpieces 1850-1900
14 May Richard Edgcumbe
Beauty and Justness: Chasing Gold in eighteenth century London
11 June Beatriz Chadour
The Gold Treasure of the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion
1 October Gertrud Seidmann
Sealstones and Cameos from the fifth century BC to the nineteenth century: an Unknown Collection in Padua
5 November Margarita Tinto
The 'Llibres de Passantia' of the Jewellers of Barcelona from the 16th to the 19th century.
3 December
AGM, followed by Diana Scarisbrick
Ancestral Jewels: Recent Research
1991
28 January Jack Ogden
Recent Research into the Wearing of Rings in the Ancient World
4 March Kenneth Snowman
Eighteenth century Gold Boxes
15 April Nigel Israel
The History of Gemmology and its Literature
20 May Hugh Tait
Sixteenth century Shell Cameos
24 June George Dalgleish
The Art of Jewellery in Scotland from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day
30 September Kevin Coates
Themes and Preoccupations of a Goldsmith's Work
4 November Elizabeth Cumming
Phoebe Traquair and Scottish Arts and Crafts
11 December Leslie Webster
Anglo-Saxon Jewellery; Pagan into Christian
1992
13 January
AGM, followed by Shirley Bury
Jewellery 1789-1910: The International Era; The Anglo-French Connection
2 March Ronald Lightbown
Fifteenth Century Italian Jewellery: a period of change in style
6 April John Cherry
The Middleham Jewel
11 May Nuno Vassallo e Silva
The Portuguese gems trade in the sixteenth century
15 June Dr Rudiger Joppien
Elizabeth Treskow: Master of Granulation
28 September Charlotte Gere
Looking at Jewellery: Aspects of cataloguing the Hull Grundy Gift to the British Museum and the Treasures and Trinkets exhibition at the Museum of London
2 November Lorenz Seelig
Goldsmiths' Models at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
7 December René Brus
Crowns, Symbols of Power and Dignity
1993
27 January Oleg Neverov
Classical Engraved Gems at the Hermitage
5 February
AGM, followed by Annelies Krekel-Aalberse
Dutch jewellery of the early 20th Century: A Revolution in Design
19 April Jacqueline Mina
A continuing fascination with precious metals
24 MayRonald Lightbown
A Forgotten Jewel: the Medieval Paternoster
28 June Charles Truman
The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes
27 September Mary Cahill
Later Bronze Age Goldwork from Ireland
1 November Hugh Tait
Jewellery of the Late Renaissance and Baroque
14 November Lord Balfour of Inchrye
Famous Diamonds
6 December Judy Rudoe and Sue La Niece
Coloured Gold Jewellery in the 18th and 19th Centuries: New discoveries in the Hull-Grundy Gift at the British Museum
1994
24 January
AGM, followed by Geza von Hapsburg
Fabergé - Imperial patronage
7 March Warwick Bray
The River of Gold - Gold treasures from Panama
11 April Beatriz Chadour-Sampson
The Alice and Louis Koch Collection - Finger rings from 2000 BC to the present day
23 May Natasha Kuzmanovic
John Paul Cooper (1869-1933) Silversmith and Jeweller
20 June Dr. Donald F Easton
Priam’s Gold - The Straightforward Story of a Controversial Treasure
3 October Catherine Johns
The Hoxne Hoard
14 November n/a
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12 December Gertrud Seidmann
Edward Burch RA, Seal Engraver to His Majesty, and reluctant Neo-classicist
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