Artifacts
The collection includes the following types of work:
- Gold boxes: highly decorated and often jewel-encrusted 18th century snuff boxes.
- Silver: a wide range of European decorative silver from the Renaissance to the Victorian era.
- Gold and treasury: pieces from around the world, including an Anatolian gold ewer from the third millennium BC and a solid gold tea service made in the 19th century for Russian imperial family.
- Italian mosaics: pietre dure works from Renaissance Florence and enamel micromosaics made in Rome. The Gilbert collection claims to have the leading collection of these two types of art in the world.
- Art in enamel: a collection of over 100 enamel miniature portraits from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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