The V&A Jewellery Collection / Barbara Cartilge

15. November 2018 19:00

Beatrice Chadour

Based in England Dr. Beatriz Chadour-Sampson is an international jewellery historian and
lecturer. Her numerous publications range from Antiquity to the present day. These include her
doctoral thesis on the Italian goldsmith Antonio Gentili da Faenza (1980), the jewellery
collection of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne (1985), the gold treasure from the
Nuestra Senora de la Concepción (1991) and ‘2000 Finger Rings’ from the Alice and Louis Koch
Collection (1994) in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich of which she continues to be consultant.
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson was consultant curator in the re-designing of the William and Judith
Bollinger Jewellery Gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and also guest curator of
the ‘Pearls’ exhibition (2013/14). Among other projects she is currently cataloguing the ‘Inge
Asenbaum Collection’ from Vienna, now in the Dallas Museum of Art.
Together with Janet Hosegood she has published the book “Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum
Gallery” at the arnoldsche ART PUBLISHERS, Stuttgart, which will be the basis for her talk.

After the lecture you will be invited to a drink.