{"product_id":"brooches-and-badges-1","title":"Brooches and Badges","description":"Product Description  From medieval pilgrim badges and Renaissance hat decorations to jewelled brooches and twentieth-century political pins, brooches and badges are often more than practical or decorative dress fasteners; they are expressions of identity. Focusing on the V\u0026amp;A�s world-famous collection, Brooches \u0026amp; Badges explores the evolution of these intricate and versatile works of art, and the way in which changes in dress have dictated their use.  Table of Contents  Introduction • 1. ‘Send…letters, tokens, brooches, and ranges’ 1000–1500 • 2. ‘Rich Apparell, precious Jewells’ 1500–1800 • 3. ‘Any number of brooches, up and down and everywhere’ 1800–1900 • 4. ‘The new jewel has been born’ 1900–1920 • 5. ‘Clips are going like wildfire’ 1920–1940 • 6. ‘Almost anything goes’ 1940–1960 • 7. ‘Precious stones have won their freedom’ 1960-1990 • 8. ‘The shock of beauty’ 1990–The Present • References; Glossary; Further Reading; Notes; Major Collections Featuring Brooches and Badges Acknowledgments; Author’s Biography; Index  Review  A handsome addition to any jewelry collector s library --JCK Online  About the Author  Rachel Church is a Curator in the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum with a special responsibility for the rings collection. She has published and lectured on jewelry and worked on the re-display of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery. She has contributed to a number of V\u0026amp;A publications, including writing on gold boxes in The Gilbert Collection at the V\u0026amp;A (2009).","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40812796706901,"sku":"9780500480359N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/02130d32-e02c-4350-a074-823a28ddaba1.jpg?v=1712756150","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/brooches-and-badges-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}