Essayists Philippa Glanville is the author of Silver in England (1984), Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England (1989), Silver (1995), Elegant Eating (1998) and most recently, with Gordon Glanville, a chapter in City Merchants and the Arts (2004). She was Keeper of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 1999, and subsequently Academic Director, the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor. Diana Scarisbrick, FSA (1928–2024), was a historian specializing in jewellery and engraved gems. She curated exhibitions in the United Kingdom and abroad and wrote many books, including, more recently, Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty (2007) and Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (2011). For many years she was the historian of Chaumet, the great Parisian jeweller. As research associate at the Beazley Archive, Oxford, she collaborated with Professor Sir John Boardman and Claudia Wagner on The Beverley Collection of Gems at Alnwick Castle (Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016). In 2014 she published with Benjamin Zucker the biography of Elihu Yale (Thames & Hudson). Among her last books were Diamond Jewelry: 700 Years of Glory and Glamour published by Thames & Hudson in September 2019, and the two volumes devoted to the Griffin collection of rings and published by Paul Holberton in 2021 and 2024. Her book Margaret de Flahaut (1788–1867): A Scotswoman at the French Court was published by John Adamson in March 2019. The late Charles Truman was the author of The James A. de Rothschild Collection: Gold Boxes and Miniatures (1975), The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection of Gold Boxes (1984), The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes - Part 1 (1991)  and Part 2 (1999) , and edited The Sotheby’s Concise Encyclopaedia of Silver  (1992). A director of C. & L. Burman Ltd, he was Chairman of the British Antique Dealers’ Association. The late David Watkin was Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture at Cambridge University and the author of Thomas Hope and the Neo-classical Idea (1968), Morality and Architecture (1977), The Royal Interiors of Regency England (1990) and The Architect King: George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment  (2004). Matthew Winterbottom is Curator of Decorative Art at the Holburne Museum, Bath. While working as Assistant Curator (Works of Art), The Royal Collection, he contributed to Royal Treasures (2001) and to George III and Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste  (2004).

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