An authoritative and gorgeously illustrated survey of Victorian jewelry that focuses on the recently popularized "secondary" jewelry, characterized by bold, playful, romantic and modern designs. For more than half a century, during the reign of Queen Victoria, England and Europe produced some of the[...]
"Georgian Jewellery" is a celebration of the quality and style of the eighteenth century and of the endless ingenuity in design and workmanship that produced such a wealth of fabulous and wearable pieces of jewellery. Heavy academic tomes have already been written about the period, so this book illu[...]