European Jewellery
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 975 items of European jewellery. These date broadly from 1600 to 2000. This collection encompasses brooches, bangles, belts, bracelets, buttons, earrings, hair ornaments, necklaces and necklets, rings, and shoe and waist buckles. The majority of these items originate from Britain and continental Europe, though some were manufactured for the European market in South America, the USA, Scandinavia and India. The collection contains examples of European ‘folk jewellery’, mainly from the 19th and early 20th century, plus a small group of contemporary jewellery dating from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection also contains items collected to complement the costume and textile collection and a group of small-scale accessories or ‘objets de vertu’. The collection is dominated by jewellery worn by women and sentimental themes, although jewellery manufactured for men and children is also included. Makers represented in the collection include FD Froment-Meurice, Ernesto Pierret, Henry Wilson of England, Jessie M King and Jean Muir.
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