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The Jewellery Collection. Transcending Centuries and Cultures

Article  /  History   Arnoldsche   Curating   Collecting
 
Published: 13.05.2025
The Jewellery Collection. Transcending Centuries and Cultures.
A Goldsmith in his Shop by Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges), 1449.
Oil on oak panel. 98 x 85.2 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number: 1975.1.110

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This article is included in the book The Fascination of Jewellery. 7000 Years of Jewellery at the MAKK, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, pp. 16-29.

Over its long history since its foundation in 1888, the Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne (MAKK) has accrued an unusually comprehensive collection of jewellery that attests to a 7000-year history of ownership. This was made possible chiefly by the foresight and passion of three outstanding collectors and their generosity in the twentieth century, as well as many smaller individual donations and curatorial acquisitions over the years.
 
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