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PagesLes Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Silver
Is Silver “Poor Man’s Gold”? No. In Antiquity, silver was more highly prized than gold. The first known coins were minted in silver in Ancient Greece, and over the... Read more -
PagesRing in the New Year
In the last edition of Jewelry Focus for 2020, we bring to you a selection of sparklers and dazzlers to ring in the New Year. Discover this carefully selected group... Read more -
PagesLes Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Posy Rings
Taking their name from the French poésie or poem, 'posy rings' bear short, often rhyming, inscriptions and love mottos. Well-established in Tudor and Elizabethan England, they even feature in the... Read more -
PagesLes Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Diamonds
Diamonds are forever! Les Enluminures is pleased to offer a very special group of diamond rings spanning the 16th to 18th centuries. Our highlights include two new acquisitions . Both... Read more -
PagesLes Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Carved Stones
After the success of TEFAF Online and sale of the Althorp Leopard, we are delighted to offer a focused group of rings and jewelry featuring twelve cameos and intaglios spanning... Read more -
PagesBooks of Hours Summer Update
No one can claim understanding the late Middle Ages who has not read a Book of Hours in bed. --Christopher de Hamel Les Enluminures offers one of the largest and... Read more -
PagesJewelry: New Acquisitions
Les Enluminures is well known for its broad range of historic jewelry and small devotional objects, including finger rings. It has handled jewelry and rings dating from the Egyptian... Read more