7000 Years of Jewellery

The British Museum's survey of jewellery history, edited by Hugh Tait and drawing on contributions from specialists across the Museum's departments. The book covers jewellery from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the medieval period, the Renaissance, and on to the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. It draws extensively on the Museum's own holdings and uses the collection as a thread through what would otherwise be an unwieldy chronological span.

The chapters on nineteenth and early twentieth century jewellery — the period of the Garland Style, Art Nouveau, and the transition to Art Deco — are particularly relevant to Cartier scholarship. Cartier appears in this context as the exemplar of the platinum-set diamond jewellery tradition that dominated the years before the First World War, and the book situates Cartier within the broader European jewellery market of the period.

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All three editions (1987, 2007, 2017) are findable secondhand. The British Museum Press reissues updated the illustrations and expanded coverage of later periods. The 1987 Abrams edition is the one most commonly cited in the academic jewellery literature of the 1990s and 2000s.

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Used as a contextual reference for the broader jewellery history framework within which the Belle Époque, Garland Style, and Art Deco glossary entries are written.