Download or read book Modern Jewellery Design and Fans written by Charles Holme and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in 1902 and shows a good history of what modern Jewelry was like at the time. FRENCH superiority in the art of jewellery seems to be incontestable to-day. No unbiased observer will deny the fact that with us there is more richness, more variety, more originality than can be found elsewhere; and the jewellery section in the Esplanade des Invalides at the Exhibition of 1900 showed to the whole world the progress made in this special branch of applied art by our craftsmen and our artists; showed, too, the verve, the imagination, the fancifulness,