Jewelry Terms in History – A researcher’s log from archive resources

Here you will find jewelry terms as they appears in vintage articles discovered through the research of jewelry historian Melinda Lewis. This will be an on-going list.

• L’art nouveau, The New York Times, 1900 “’L’art nouveau’ as applied to jewelry is after the style of Lalique, the Frenchman who has made the many curious designs in which celebrated people have expressed their and his original ideas. With the popular use of semi-precious stones in jewelry, people are getting an artistic standard in their ornaments that was not possible when only the intrinsic value of the stones was regarded.”