10 Things Rocking the Jewelry Industry: November 2013
1. Exhibitions
Between 1640 and 1666, someone stashed hundreds of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels beneath a cellar floor in London’s Cheapside neighborhood, but never returned to reclaim them. Now through April 27, the Museum of London’s eagerly anticipated new exhibition, “The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels,” invites jewel lovers, historians, and curiosity-seekers to ogle the full collection for the first time since its accidental discovery in 1912. Scholars hope the 500 jewels, gems, and artifacts—including Byzantine cameos, bejeweled bottles, even a custom fragrance created by master perfumer Roja Dove to evoke the scent of Jacobean London—will bring them closer to solving the mystery of the hoard’s enigmatic owner. But in the words of curator Hazel Forsyth, at least one fact about the exhibit remains certain: “Nothing in the world comes close.”
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