THE JEWELRY COLLECTION OF THE MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS
Characteristics
Author: Évelyne Possémé
- Number of pages
- 36
- Number of illustrations
- 106
- Publication date
- 16/11/2004
- Dimensions
- 21 X 29,7 cm
- Publisher
- Éditions Les Arts Décoratifs
- Categories
- Bookshop, Jewels, MAD's publications, Exhibition, Exhibition: Bijoux d'artistes de Calder à Jeff Koons. La collection idéale de Diane Venet.
Description
Rich in 4,000 pieces, the jewelry collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is unique in the French national collections by the variety of eras it covers: religious jewelery of the Middle Ages to contemporary creations, through the bodice ornaments of the eighteenth century , Empire jewelry or Art Nouveau brooches.
Over time, it reflects the wide variety of models, themes and techniques of jewelers. Offered to the museum, worn or transmitted as a heritage, these jewels have in themselves a story, testimonies of passionate amateurs or those who wanted to transmit a family attachment. This album presents the major pieces of the collection.
