Cartier 1900–1939

Published to accompany the major touring exhibition shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Field Museum in Chicago across 1997 and 1998, this is the most academically rigorous catalogue in the Cartier literature. At 344 pages it is substantially larger than a standard exhibition catalogue and functions as a reference work in its own right.

Judy Rudoe was a senior curator in the British Museum's Department of Medieval and Modern Europe, specialising in nineteenth and twentieth-century decorative arts and jewellery. Her access to Cartier's production records for the period covered underpins the catalogue's treatment of individual commissions, stock book references, and technical attribution.

Contenido

The 1900–1939 period spans the transition from the Belle Époque Garland Style through the Art Nouveau years, the introduction of platinum, the influence of Persian and Islamic design, the Indian commissions, and the peak Art Deco period. The catalogue treats jewellery, clocks, watches, and objects across the period.

Where individual entries in the glossary cite Rudoe with a page reference — notably for the Nancy Astor Tiara at p. 172 — those citations refer to the 1997 British Museum Press edition.

Donde encontrarlo

Available secondhand; copies appear regularly at auction and on the specialist book market. Both the British Museum Press and the Abrams editions circulate. Not reprinted.

Citado en

Referenced in glossary entries on Nancy Astor Tiara, Art Deco, Garland Style, and Platinum. The Bonhams sale catalogue for the Nancy Astor Tiara (June 2025) cites Rudoe at p. 172.