Here, in more than 1,500 full-colour, specially drawn lustrations, is the most comprehensive and detailed history and sourcebook of twentieth-century jewelry ever published, John Peacock charts the development of every kind and style f jewelry from the 1900s to the year 2000 for both women and men: earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets and angles, brooches, rings, buckles and clasps, dress clips, hair and hat ornaments, watches, cufflinks, tiepins... Both precious jewelry and costume jewelry appear, as does novelty jewelry. John Peacock"s wide-ranging research, using not only paintings and photographs but also the jewelry itself, has lowed him to reproduce in meticulous detail a host of representative pieces of jewelry from every year of the century. II the great twentieth-century designers and jewelry houses are featured - among them Lalique, Cartier, Chaumet, Georg Jensen, Fulco di Verdura, Schlumberger, Miriam Haskell, Harry Winston, Van Cleef &. Arpels and Tiffany & Co. -...