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Adélaïde Dufrénoy

The daughter of Jacques Billet, a jeweller for the Crown of Poland, she had a lavish education and learnt Latin to a proficient enough level that she was able to translate the works of Horace and Virgil.

Alexander III Commemorative

The Alexander III Commemorative egg is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1909, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented it to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Architectonic jewellery

All three articles touch upon different aspects of architectonic jewellery, the concept of scale and proportion in relation to the body, the Modernist/Constructivist influence and through citing examples of jewellers, the different manifestations of architectural expression within jewellery.

Balthasar Permoser

Permoser collaborated as a modeller in the Dresden workshops of Johann Melchior Dinglinger, court jeweller to Augustus; notable examplers of this kind of collaboration are the two sculptures of Moors by Permoser, encrusted with jewelled decor by Dinglinger, in the Neues Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden.

Bapi Bari Jaa

Bapi, the younger son of a rich jeweller in Kolkata happens to be the money contributors for his friends.

Belur Math

At this enclosure is a crystal image of Swamiji that was done by the Paris jeweller, René Lalique.

Bulldog Jack

When Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) agrees to masquerade as a sleuth, he is enlisted to help Ann Manders (Fay Wray) find her jeweller grandfather who has been kidnapped by a gang of crooks who want him to copy a valuable necklace they want to steal.

Crown Jewels of Württemberg

The appearance of the crown was last modified during 1749–1827 by the court jeweller August Heinrich Kuhn for King William I of Württemberg.

Daria-i-Noor

In 1965, a Canadian team conducting research on the Iranian Crown Jewels concluded that the Darya-ye Noor may well have been part of a large pink diamond that had been studded in the throne of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and had been described in the journal of the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in 1642, who called it the Great Table diamond ("Diamanta Grande Table").

David Dawson

David Stewart Dawson (1849–1932), Australian manufacturing jeweller and property tycoon

Holbeinesque jewellery

Such designs were inspired by the art of Hans Holbein the Younger, and were often copied from jewellery depicted in Holbein's portraits of Tudor ladies from the court of Henry VIII by jewellers such as John Brogden and his fellow worker, Carlo Giuliano.

Juan Marsé

At age 14 he started to publish some of his writings in Insula magazine and in a cinema magazine while working as an apprentice jeweller.

Oignies Abbey

In 1187, four brothers from Walcourt settled at Oignies, Three of the brothers, Gilles, Robert and John, were priests, while the fourth, Hugo, was a jeweller and metalworker.

PC Jeweller

2010: PC Jeweller was awarded Highest Exporter and the Best Exporter in the gems and jewellery sector by the Noida SEX, Department of commerce, Ministry of commerce and industry, Government of India for the year 2009-2010

Ropsha

The reputation of the manor was too sinister for any improvement on the grounds to be effected and Orlov soon ceded the palace to Admiral Ivan Chernyshev, who sold it for 12,000 roubles to Ivan Lazarev, an Armenian jeweller.

Royal Danish

The Royal Danish egg (also known as the Danish Jubilee egg) is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1903, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Stewart Dawson's Building

Built in 1901 for the London jeweller David Stewart Dawson, it is located on a prominent corner in two of Wellington's major streets, a site particularly important to history of Wellington .

The Book of Negroes

Aminata Diallo, the daughter of a jeweller and a midwife, is kidnapped at the age of 11 from her village Bayo, near Segu in West Africa and forced to walk for days to the sea in a coffle with hundreds of strangers and a handful of people from her village.

The Luvvers

Wendels lives in Palm Springs, California and still plays, as does Neilson who is a jeweller in London.

Wedding dress of Sophie Rhys-Jones

Sophie wore a diamond tiara, from the Queen's private collection, consisting of three open-work scroll motifs, designed and re-modelled by the Crown Jeweller, David Thomas, at Asprey and Garrard.

Welcome to Collinwood

Welcome to Collinwood is a 2002 American caper comedy film written and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo about a group of small-time thieves and misfits from the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, who attempt to carry out a major theft from a jeweller's apartment safe.

William Still Littlejohn

Littlejohn was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Wilson Littlejohn, a watchmaker and jeweller, and his wife Margaret, née Gordon.


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