Spotlight on V&A Jewellery Collections
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The V&A has one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of jewellery in the world. Over 3,000 jewels tell the story of jewellery in Europe from ancient times to the present day. Academy Award winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne, jewellery designer Stephen Webster, British Vogue jewellery editor Carol Woolton and V&A curator Clare Phillips reveal their highlights from the collection.
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I wish they could do several mini videos giving the story of each piece...I’d watch every one...
Ooohhh, great idea. They could do a whole series.
Me too History and artistry combined. Perfection.
Yes, yes, yes! Brilliant! Gonna subscribe in the hope that they give your idea life
I was thinking the same. I'd watch a series focused on a piece each episode.
Yes please!!
What I enjoy about these museum videos is there is no queuing, no jostling, I can hear the curator perfectly and I can get a cuppa and a sit down any time I like without missing any info. And it’s inexpensive with no travelling. And I see more items as I don’t get too tired and need a rest. Plus I am seeing things I’d never actually get to see without a lengthy costly journey. Overjoyed, thank you 🙂👍🏻🌟
my mom passed in 2011 and she left me a BEAUTIFUL collection of fine jewelry... I would have love to have taken her here - she was a stay at home house wife (*who raised three kids) and my father spoiled her materially (*because he was not always emotionally available because he had combat related PTSD...) She would have loved to see such historical beauty!
SirParcifal I’m sure the greatest joy your mother could have known was for your life to have been filled with beauty and love. So I hope that you can visit, and see be filled with joy, for you both:)
I’m sure she would be delighted about your appreciation of the intrinsic beauty of the items - a huge compliment to the CRAFTSPEOPLE who made them without recourse to the financial advantage, Thank you!
The V&A is my very favourite place to go to whenever I can but I always think it is a shame that such beautiful jewellry shall never be worn again.
On the other hand it does give you a chance to see and appreciate the superlative craftsmanship that created these items from raw metal and stone irrespective of monetary value.
Very fragile and delicate some pieces would be especially Catherine the Greats jewellery 17th century a.nd their are items 14th century.
Haha guess I'm rare in that I liked the music just fine. Wasn't distracting or too loud at all in my opinion and made for a very relaxing effect. I do understand why some would feel otherwise though. Very much enjoyed the video!
there's always something to complain about on the internet
Wow! I could spend a week in that room!
Same
Same.
Also.... same
I wouldn’t.... those are low qualities
I could spend a hour on that room and leave that place empty
Every exhibit in the V&A is full of such beautiful pieces. I wish I lived close enough to visit regularly.
I am 80 yrs. Born in Richmond Surrey. UK. From 7 yrs, until 15yrs. My father would take me each Sunday. Autumn till April. During which we visited London's Wonderful Museums. Opening the world of Science. Natural History' V.A.' my favourite when very young . British Museum where one discovered all Civilisations . It included the B. Library in those days . Because of being Bombed many parts of the City were gone . So map reading was another discovery. I learnt more in those years, than I ever did in school. Which i felt rather boring. We studied a great deal . No TV. No Telephone. Only music for which i had no ear. I regret my grandchildren have no interest in cultural knowledge. Apart what I share with them. PC. I PHONEs, their world!.
Stolen treasures
An amazing gallery that's so much more than just about displaying an
extraordinary collection of jewels and body adornments. One of the many
highlights of the V&A.
Sal Reed we Brits know the truth thanks, most of us come from those families but we can also separate the intrinsic beauty of the item from the history of those who commissioned them. Some of us simply revere the craftsmen who made them and were never themselves rich, as the descendant of generation after generation of metal workers, jewellery makers and painters that is how I see these pieces - they were made with hands like mine - so piss off and have a nice day.
Sal Reed Get a life. we don’t need politically correct. we want art and beauty. you can think of blood and guts. don’t attend and don’t watch.
The beauty and diversity of the design of each piece you look at in the gallery is incredible You could easily spend a day just looking at the jewelry
Whenever I visit the V&A I always make sure i go and see the jewelry even if it's just for 10 minutes at the end of the visit
I always have to drag myself away!
Incredible display, what a gem to have available & free admission no less!
I like the Cartier Tutifruti necklace that turn into two bracelets and I like the Townsend spiral rings collection.
Just watched this again,so well done, thank you,I loved the 1816 letter and how the rings were displayed,I wish there was something like this in Chicago.
I spent about two hours in this room when I was at the museum. I absolutely loved it, and one of my favourite pieces was the large diamond broche with movement that you get a glimpse of at 2.57.
I'll never visit the V&A and not dedicate at least half an hour of my visit to the jewellery collections. Every time, I am drawn to a piece I didn't notice as much last time, and the journey of exploration and bedazzlement begins again. Such a treasure to the world.
Stolen treasure you mean
@@saptakmukherjee7615 well yes, naturally. If it was my choice they'd be returned to their rightful owners. But as it is, they're there, and they're beautiful.
It makes me sad that all these beautiful pieces will never be worn again
This way they are for everyone, to show humankinds wonderful artistic works and combining the jewels of our beautiful earth.
@@ironhornforge stolen treasures
@@saptakmukherjee7615 That too
Love the fighting fish cuff !
So nice to have the artist jeweler explaining the genesis of the piece too.
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. A human being designed and created these pieces of art. It's amazing. I'm glad they can now be appreciated by all instead of being horded by the few.
Darnelle Echols Hello Darnell, totally agree. Great art should be available to everyone as the highest achievement of humanity, the way the achievements of science routinely are. These items represent the best of us.
It is a bit of a shame though, that a lot of these pieces are not used by anyone. Their creators made them so they'd be worn by someone.
Oh My!! I work in the jewelry industry, mainly with the gemstones, but WOW 😲 that Siamese fighting fish bracelet is definitely an eye catcher 👀 Absolutely gorgeous 😍 💎
Thank you so much!!!
Means a lot to see these treasures. Literally breathtaking!!!
Education, travel, science,art and more art!!!
Love it!!!
I wish I was there in person to enjoy this, love it, thank you.
I’ve been there. I couldn’t believe,y eyes. The most beautiful jewelry I’ve ever seen including a mourning broach for Princess Charlotte. The tiaras were beyond imagining.
I would like to see more videos covering the collection, perhaps by period and/or style, to get an idea of shifting motifs and favored materials through history.
on my bucket list
2:13 Don't try to tell me that's not Edna Mode, because that's definitely Edna Mode. She's even a superhero costume designer for heaven's sake.
There was the most beautiful “Bow” necklace that myself and a crowd of women were ogling. It was so relevant, it could have been worn now as it was then. It really stuck out in my mind.
How beautiful! I want to go there now
I could spend hours in this room looking at the jewelry.
Me too "I'd love to wear some of it," very interesting exhibit, I hope to see it in person soon.
Amazing!
What an absolutely stunning exhibition
Your videos are a welcome zen moment every day. So many beautiful things.
Fascinating history associated with all pieces displayed.
I would cry if i was there. Like i said in the last video. Im american. We dont have the same history so when i get to see stuff thats really old...it just....moves me. I cant help it.
could you turn the music up i could almost here them talk
Bullshit. You and everyone else here just feel better about yourselves when you have something to bitch about.
I could spend many many happy days there.
Stunning
I think it'd be fatastic if the jewelry would be displayed on mannequins with the corresponding period fashions. Although I could imagine it might cost V&A just too much to have secure show cases put togther i.o. to keep the pieces of jewelry safe.
Alexander Hofstetter agree Alexander, you are a natural curator.
While I agree it would be nice to see it with clothing of the time, it would also be much harder to see the jewellry details. When it's kept separate under the glass it's much easier to see the full piece and all it's tiny intricate pieces. If it would be on mannequins, it would be too far from the viewer.
Wow! The history of some of these pieces is incredible. It would be so fascinating to see this in person. Imagine working there and actually getting to handle these !
Just beautiful.
I would have liked to have heard more about the jewellery Napoleon have Hortense, his adopted daughter.
I remember going there great place ❤❤❤❤
There’s some beautiful work in there, but that titanium fish bracelet must take the prize for most technically challenging to actually make.
Excellent, invigorating! Fascinating!
I had no problem hearing the people talk but was distracted by the music. Please turn it down and it would be more effective.
stunning. i want to see more details of it
Gorgeous ❤
As an American I was shocked that admission is FREE! I'll never set foot in the Met in NY ever again.
We take this far too much for granted in this country.
I want to go!
May I borrow the Koi bracelet? Why, you ask? Well, I have a lot of sitting around my house to do... 😬💙💙💙
Do you think , in years to come , there will be a special display of jewelled masks ?
I can't hear the comments over the background music.
How did we miss this? We were just there!
sad, the V & A is notoriously underrated, and the jewelry display, well, this doesn't do it justice.
Allan Hegyes no it’s not and it was made clear by an internationally renown designer in the film made that perfectly clear.
Could not understand what they were saying for the loud music in the background
After watching this I am going through withdrawals after being out of fine jewelry for 18 years....definitely a must see...
to the museum staff and curators: 1:15 one simple suggestion of mine, if i may,
using the back panel made like a big "droplet in water" circles and waves, not a flat plane.
or even in a galaxy like tridimensional, multi arms* array...
i loved that ring collection, it felt like a testament in solid art, of human's way and notion of beauty, thanks for the video, it made the ocean(internet,youtube,etc) entirely richer.(even a drop makes a lake bigger)(a drop in the middle of a huge pond makes ripples that travel the entire area, affecting all the margins). q:P
Wow amazing
Amazing video! What is the sound track gong though the movie?
WOW! Ist das ein Museum? Wenn ja, dann möchte ich auch mal da rein! Als Schmuckliebhaberin würden mir da sicher die Augen raus ploppen!
The spiral display should be on a very slow spin to allow the stones to sparkle ✨
3:12 "and deep envy, I would love to wear some of it"... same
This would be so much more enjoyable if one didn't have to struggle to hear what was being said. The music is far too loud, it overtakes the whole video. Such a shame.
Yes, but also the story behind them is worth it. (?)
Melanie Martinez yes. The story behind any historic object is worth it. The past tells us where we’ve been,and that human progress is both possible and advisable. Not convinced? Taliban.
My weakness!Can you imagine the security!!
I always feel weird looking at jewelry collections in museums. I love the pieces, the craftsmanship and the materiality both appeal to me, but it always feels off because theyre displayed on stands, while these are objects meant to be WORN. it gives me this kind of feeling like im looking at something incomplete. Even though the jewelry is the thing being displayed, it feels like actually the main piece is missing and youre just looking at accessories. Kinda like when murals and facades are displayed off of the buildings and context they belonged too. Beautiful objects yes, but without the architecture they fit in to, they seem like disparate incomplete pieces. I dont even get this as much with clothes displayed flat and not on a manikin. A dress by itself is still a complete object, but a set of jewelry or even a tiara displayed in a case just seems to exist in some sort of void. The fish bracelet was wonderful but i could shake that nagging desire to see him put it on, just to see what it actually looks like on a hand. I get this major feeling of cognitive dissonance in these spaces, the jewelry just never feels complete to me unless i can see someone wear it. And then its "oh so thats what its MEANT to look like".
I couldn't agree more! I wanted to see the fish bracelet modeled and would have loved to hear someone tell us what it felt like to wear it. An often overlooked part of jewelry is what it feels like to wear a fine piece.
Am watching this now, but the background music is too loud & detracts from the narration as you can not hear what is being said. 😊
It looks like a magical glow-worm cave, just needs the odd light to dim out or suddenly twinkle on to bring it alive
I wanna see this.
❤
Did anyone give me information on affluent families who commissioned jewelry from Fuller and sons in Pawtucket Rhode Island in the 1800s I have a guard chain from a lady's set and I'm looking for provenance
Alright, alright.. I'll check the center console in our car...
Okay, I've found 3 sticky nickels, 4 dimes, 1 quarter, & 17 pennies.. nope, make that _18_ pennies; also looked under the sofa cushions.. turned up $1.37.
So my answer: sold! I'll take 'em all.
7:40 isn’t it supposed to be a Siamese (not Japanese) Fighting Fish?
Loud, loud music! Show the goods not the talkers.
HAHAHA will hit this spot, IF I HAD CHANCE TO GO TO LONDON.
7:40 Siamese Fighting Fish.
Was not Catherine the Great of Russian descent? Why would her jewelry be in the V&A?
Because the Romanovs married into the British Royal family and vice versa. Prince Phillip and The Duke of Kent are actually very closely related to the Romanovs
Also Catherine was German. Not Russian in the slightest.
Martyn Notman so are the British Royal family German, not British in the slightest.
Maybe if you lot didn't destroy your monarchy it would still be in Russia.
can some one tell me what gallery is this.
Victoria and Albert Museum, a splendid museum of applied art in London
I don't know, jewelry is made to be worn. Or so I think. Jewelry, and clothing museums sort of make me sad. All just sitting there. Yes, it's nice we all can see them if preserved this way, but it's still a bit sad to me.
i didnt know red reddingtons body cleaner made costumes for marvel!
The betta is not a "Japanese fighting fish".
how much of that was theft from other countries
Can the Queen just wear anything she chooses even from here? They do belong to her do they not....
Narice Woolon No, these are part of a national collection. The Queen has her own inherited collection
No..
She doesn't own them, they are owned by the nation of Britain and Britain is the guardian of the collection.
So all mankind can enjoy them
Why is that not sold and the poor British people housed and fed?
clare5 one Fat chance of that.
The poor don’t matter....it’s simple.
The rich would take it with them if they could.
That’s why it’s harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
National conservative policy keeps the poor, poor, nothing to do with museums.
@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 I will keep that in mind the next time I hear a Protestant mock the Vatican Museum, honey.
Because it's massively culturally important? You must be incredibly uneducated and frankly stupid to come up with that.
are they allowed to touch all that with their naked hands?
Cardiac. Arrest. Oh god, the naked hands cry of horror for a passer by who hasn’t the first bloody clue about curatorship. It’s widely accepted that gloves do far more damage than clean human hand -or indeed a bit of human spit - ever will. Do you think to research before making these kind of comments?
While i am not taking away from the craftmanship of the people who made all that fantastic jewllery i cant help wondering what good the value of it all sitting in a glass case would do for the less fortunate people of the world.
7:40 BETTA FISH ARE FIGHTING FISH FROM SIAM NOT JAPAN. Jeesh not everything has to be from japan
I haft sum beautiful loose stones i would love to haft a diadem in But haft nat found a jewler to set them
Javallary and dimonds made in india
without a woman wearing it, all of that wonderful jewlery is dead
7:16 it's demonic
What about a man wearing it? Would that jewelry become a zombie? 😂
That’s a deeply pro woman comment, thank you Florian.
The choice of having a person dressed in black showing the titanium cuff was stupid. There is zero contrast and you can't discern between the cuff and the man's clothing.
Too many talking heads, not enough jewellery.
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That's a lot of enslaved and dead people in the colonial mines represented there.
Oh, dear one, that still happens in many other industries... not just the mining industry in the past (and even present). As pharmacy "goals": keep the people´s illness "controlled", but never "fund" a cure on real.
And yet the mines remain open and despite Billions in aid to former colonies, poor people still work in them. Surely after decades of independence these places would at least be benefitting the local population but apparently not.
The changes that time can make. I, too, once would oh and ah over the pretty trinkets. Now I just see monuments to greed, egotism and plunder. If only cultural achievement were measured by the welfare of the people, instead of valuable toys.
Jewellery from ancient times to the present time and not one word about René Lalique. Must be Francofobia
atzo naftaniel No I doubt it, most Art Nouveau was bought by the very wealthy, is still collected by the very wealthy and bypassed the museum in the first place. If I had top level Lalique it would be prised from my cold dead hands, and I’m English. English collectors like Elton John flogged his to buy more art and, I’m guessing, English pieces. Not Francophobia at all.
@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 I meant in this video not in general.
There are over 2.3 million objects in the V&A. They missed out thousands of designers in this video, so it's unlikely that they singled out René Lalique. If they were Francophobes, I don't think they would hold 52 pieces by René Lalique in their collection and have a number of them on display in the museum.
Such a waste of nice jewelry. To just have it hang on a wall when some of the pieces still could be worn and given the purpose it was suppose to have is a shame.
I totally agree such beautiful pieces should be worn to bring life to them again. That peridot set is just giving me heartburn seeing it behind a glass case. The ruby brooch is beyond magnificent. I would love to spend one year training at this museum solely at the jewelry section to study special pieces.
No it’s never a waste to see superb work by outstanding craftspeople on display for everyone to appreciate it independent of financial value or personal wealth.
So you'd have it all in private collections?
So only the elite and few can enjoy before going back into a draw?
This way these wonderful pieces of human creation can be enjoyed by everyone.
@@ironhornforge these pieces of jewelry will be on display only for a few years then be thrown in a storage vault to never be seen again. They are beautiful pieces of art yes, but they are crafted to last for hundreds of years, not to be encased in glass and frozen in time. Many people allow exhibits to borrow their possessions to be displayed for an extended amount of time as a temporary donation for others to see them as well if that helps.
So this is really a Stephen Webster advertisement. Waste of time.
If you watched the video, Webster is only a part of it, It's interesting to be able to hear the designer talk about what he designed
This channel has the worst background NOISE. Can't even call it music. 😣
More jewels, MUCH LESS talking.
Loot Museum. Maharaja Ranjit Singh valuable looted items
Naw precious, can't let people enjoy things without getting offended haha.
No one owns them anymore you ignorant tool, they are for the enjoyment of all mankind and there for the world to see.
Learn to appreciate things like a normal person
That gallery is simply UNIMPORTANT. The wealth and monetary value that these tokens of aristocracy had and have compared to a single person or even a village of people, just disgusts me. Putting objects over souls has and will be the way for people to show their true side. That they are inhuman. That these "great leaders" simply are not great at all, not even close, and barely a human at all. You admire this or them you are no better.
Staring at the Black Sun Trying to SEE THE LIGHT lets get this into perspective shall we’ll. The gallery represents the work and skills of superlative craftspeople who represent the best of humanity by creating its twin highest achievement, creating beauty for its own sake (the other achievement in the sciences obvs) those craftsmen were not rich, they were poor artisans. As a descendent of generations of those craftspeople I know selling those items will not support me, it would be a drop in the ocean regarding basic living expenses and flooding the market would, in any event, reduce the financial value of such items as a whole. And your point is?
Idiot
So art shouldn't exist because there are poor people in the world? World without art, that's that shouldn't exist. And you are gloomy pants without eyes or sense of beauty, pathetic self proclaimed preacher whom no one likes or listens to. You are a soulless chump. Go walk in the woods. Reporting your stupid rude comment as hate speech, bye
I don't think you're quite offended enough, why stop there. You should make a stand and sacrifice yourself in protest to these horrible things.
And, to think today anyone can waltz into their local Walmart and pick up a flashy, sparkly colorful adornment for about five bucks. Objectively, much of the cheap jewelry today looks just as good if not better than those jewels
Congratulations, you have a very poor eyesight if you think that Walmart thingies compare to real art. Go check your eyes, this is my advice
HAAAHAHA, ignorance of a poor