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  • Mosheh Oved
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    Les Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Mosheh Oved

    Mosheh Oved’s first animal rings were created during the bombing raids of London during the Second World War. During one of these raids, his wife Sah Oved observed how Mosheh’s... Read more
  • Object of the Week
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    Object of the Week

    We are delighted to inaugurate our newest digital venture Object of the Week. Join us once a week to learn more about diverse objects in our collection. Read more
  • Colored Gems
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    Colored Gems

    “For a great many people, a single gemstone alone is enough to provide the highest and most perfect aesthetic experience of the wonders of nature,” wrote the ancient scholar Pliny... Read more
  • books of hours spring update
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    Books of Hours Spring Update

    No one can claim understanding of the late Middle Ages who has not read a Book of Hours in bed. --Christopher de Hamel Les Enluminures offers one of the largest... Read more
  • Les Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Your “hertes desyre” this Valentine’s Day:
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    Les Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Your “hertes desyre” this Valentine’s Day:

    Did you know that the first use of the phrase “heart’s desire” was in a Middle English poem of the fourteenth century?* At the center of the body, the heart... Read more
  • THE CROSS: “the thing of mine”
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    THE CROSS: “the thing of mine”

    THE CROSS: “the thing of mine” In 1399 the duchess of Gloucester made a bequest to her son of a cross, noting that of all her possessions, it was “the... Read more
  • Les Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Silver
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    Les 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
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    Ring 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
  • Les Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Posy Rings
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    Les 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
  • Diamonds Jewelry Focus
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    Les 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
  • Les Enluminures Jewelry Focus: Carved Stones
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    Les 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
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Mail us at: 
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+33 1 42 60 15 58
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Chicago

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980 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1330
Chicago IL 60611 

+1 773 929 5986
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New York

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7th Floor, Penthouse
New York, NY 10021

+1 212 717 7273
newyork@lesenluminures.com

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