Pearl Exhibit

Friday, January 29 to Saturday, June 5, 2010
Islamic Art Museum (Doha, Qatar)

Until the 1950s, the countries along the Persian Gulf had a long history of pearl fishing. The work was dangerous, and many people lost their lives in its pursuit. The sails of the dhow carrying fishermen and pearl divers, singing their resonant songs, have disappeared from the Persian Gulf. But the memory of the glorious pearl fishery of the past still lives in the hearts of all people in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

In 2010, Doha was designated as the cultural capital of the Persian Gulf nations. It is therefore most appropriate that in this year we honor the pearl fishers by mounting the Pearl Exhibit, chronicling the history of pearls and the pearl fishery in the Persian Gulf. On display are more than 500 items from the Islamic Art Museum's own collection, and pieces on loan from the British Museum and many other museums, in addition to loans from corporate collections.

Albion Art has assembled 24 pieces for display in the Pearl Exhibit.

Love in Victorian Jewelry Exhibit
That Splendid English Lifestyle

Saturday, January 2 to Sunday, February 21, 2010
Bunkamura The Museum

Saturday, April 10 to Sunday, June 6, 2010
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art

Saturday, July 24 to Sunday, August 22, 2010
Fukui Fine Arts Museum

Thursday, September 30 to Sunday, November 28, 2010
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum

Nineteenth century British jewelry of the Victorian Era and its splendid style of life hold an extremely valuable place in the culture of jewelry as adornment. It exudes an elegant charm that attracts many people even today. In this exhibit we introduce numerous examples of the most finely crafted jewels, some related to the British royal family, others from famous collections. Accompanying the jewelry are 300 objects of traditional English culture: wedding dresses of the period, silver table settings for afternoon tea, and delicate hand-woven antique lace. Albion Art has contributed three pieces to this exhibit:

1. Memento of William IV
2. Locket of Prince Albert
3. Miniature Bracelet of Queen Victoria

The Glory of the Hapsburg Empire
Splendor of the Austrian Palace Exhibit

Saturday, October 31, 2009 to Sunday, January 17, 2010
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Tuesday, January 26 to Sunday, February 21, 2010
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art

Tuesday, March 2 to Sunday, March 28, 2010 Kansai International Culture Center This exhibit celebrates 140 years of amicable relations between Japan and Austria. We focus on palaces in recounting the glory of the Hapsburg family, among the most famous in Europe, who ruled from the middle of the 13th century for 640 years. We introduce, beginning in Vienna, palaces scattered throughout the former Hapsburg Empire.

Also on display are over 200 items--paintings, crafts, dishes, furniture, jewelry and many other types of object that illustrate the splendor of palace life from the time of Empress Maria Theresa, symbol of the Hapsburg Empire at its peak, to the last Hapsburg Empress, Elizabeth, in the nineteenth century.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of the following six items in this exhibit:

1. Mother of Pearl Pendant
2. Jewelry with Austrian Coat of Arms
3. Ring of Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette
4. Belt Buckle of Louis XIII and Anne
5. Stomacher Brooch
6. Tiara of Marie Valerie, Princess of Austria

The Great Napoleon Exhibit
The Brilliance of Culture and Legacy of the Spirit

Wednesday, August 5 to Sunday, September 13, 2009
Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum

The French hero Napoleon Bonaparte, in addition to being a military leader and politician who built an immense French Empire, had a great interest in and understanding of culture and the arts. The Neo-Classical and Empire styles fashionable in Napoleon's day were not limited to painting and sculpture; architecture, interior decoration and furniture were all included. Napoleon's influence led to a great advance in early 19th century culture and art.

This exhibit focuses on the breadth of Napoleon's cultural influence, with more than 100 displays of painting, sculpture, crafts, jewelry, and so forth.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of the following six items in this exhibit:

1. Tiara with a Wheat Ear Motif
2. Snuff Box with Cameo of Napoleon
3. Pink Topaz Parure
4. Floral Tiara by Mellerio
5. Diamond Flower Brooches of Ekaterina II (two pieces)

150th Anniversary of Rene Lalique's Birth
From Sparkling Jewelry to Brilliant Glassware

Wednesday, June 24 to Monday, September 7, 2009
The National Art Center, Tokyo

Tuesday, September 15 to Monday, November 23, 2009
MOA Museum of Art

Rene Lalique is known as a genius who, from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century, achieved the pinnacle of art in both Art Nouveau jewelry and Art Deco glass. As we enter the 21st century, praise for the art of Lalique continues to grow. This exhibit, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Lalique's birth, introduces to the 21st century world the man whose creative impulse pursued the brilliance of light from artworks in jewelry to artworks in glass.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of nine items in this exhibit.

The Cartier Collection
Reminiscences of Beauty Encountered

Saturday, March 28 to Sunday, May 31, 2009
Tokyo National Museum, Asia Gallery

Founded in Paris in 1847 by Louis Francois Cartier, 150 years later this house remains among the top jewelers in the world. This exhibit commemorates 150 years of amicable relations between Japan and France. Assembled under the curatorship of Tokuji Yoshioka are more than 1370 precious works selected from the Cartier Collection and 276 works associated with Princess Grace of Monaco. The exhibit focuses on the unique and unknown story behind each piece, giving shape to both the historical memory and the future of Cartier.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of two items in this exhibit.

Jewels of Sentiment 1500-1900
Bijoux de Sentiment 1500-1900

Friday, October 3 to Friday, November 7, 2008
Paris, Chaumet Museum (France)

Chaumet, one of the major jewelers in Paris, has opened an exhibit of jewelry with the theme of "Sentiment" at the Chaumet Museum in the Place Vendome.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of 23 items in this exhibit.

Art Deco Jewelry and Accessories from the 1920s

Saturday, September 20, 2008 to Sunday, January 11, 2009
Pforzheim Jewelry Museum, Germany

The Art Deco period, also known as "the Golden 1920s," represents a new beginning in unique jewelry design. It was an age in which the identity of independent women was affirmed. In Art Deco jewelry the influence of decorative forms from Egypt, Japan and China is everywhere; it gained tremendous popularity in Europe. The present exhibit introduces the splendid jewelry culture of the Art Deco period in France and Germany.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of the following six items in this exhibit:


1. Brooch of Songbirds in a Tree
2. Sautoire of Diamonds and Seed Pearls
3. Halo Tiara
4. Splinter Brooch
5. Vacheron Constantin Watch
6. Chanel Tiara

Galle, Daume, Lalique:
From Art Nouveau to Art Deco
An Era of Splendid Adornment

Friday, July 18 to Monday, August 4, 2008
Kyoto Takashimaya

Thursday, August 21 to Monday, September 1, 2008
Nagoya Takashimaya

Wednesday, September 10 to Monday, September 22, 2008
Yokohama Takashimaya

Friday, January 2 to Monday, January 12, 2009
Nihonbashi Takashimaya

Wednesday, January 21 to Monday, February 2, 2009
Osaka Namba Takashimaya

This exhibit focuses on the periods in decorative art known as Art Nouveau and Art Deco, fashionable in the Western world from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. We reproduce an interior of the period with art glass, cosmetic accessories, jewelry, clothing and paintings. These charmed the women who lived in this period of flowering elegance a century ago, and established the high standard of modern French industrial design whose luster continues undiminished.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of twenty items in this exhibit.

THE ART OF GEM ENGRAVING
From Alexander the Great to Napoleon III

Saturday, September 6 to Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Hakone Open Air Museum

Saturday, November 15 to Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Fukuoka City Museum

Cameos and intaglios (carvings in raised and sunken relief) are produced by techniques known from Greek and Roman times. Throughout the vicissitudes of history they were always regarded as the finest products of the jeweler's art. This exhibit gathers in one place cameos and intaglios owned by rulers who held absolute power, from Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, to Lorenzo de Medici, "the flower of the Renaissance," to Ekaterina II, Empress of Russia, to Napoleon I, Emperor of France. The world of gems which so entranced these absolute rulers is bound together historically, artistically, and spiritually.

Albion Art has been involved in this exhibit from the planning state. Of the 380 objects on display, 130 are on loan from, or were arranged by, Albion Art.

Diamond Divas

Thursday, April 10 to Sunday, June 8, 2008
Antwerp World Diamond Centre (A.W.D.C.), Antwerp, Belgium

We have named this exhibit diamond divas in order to bring to diamonds and diamond jewelry an exciting and fresh expression. On display are everything from jewelry with artistic, historical and traditional stories to fabulous jewels worn by famous Hollywood actresses and women of great wealth. Jewelry worn in movies is also on display.

Albion Art has contributed or arranged for the display of the following eight items in this exhibit:

1. Diamond and Pearl Tiara of the Countess of Flanders
2. Tiara of Princess Margherita by Mellerio
3. Tiara of Marie Bonaparte
4. Tiara of Maria Anna, Princess of Austria
5. Tiara of Marie Valerie, Princess of Austria
6. Suite of Doves Drinking Water
7. Margherita's Shoulder Brooch
8. Diamond Enamel Pendant of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Brilliant Europe --Jewels from the European Courts--

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 to Sunday, February 17, 2008
ING Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium

The exhibit "Brilliant Europe" is part of a bi-annual festival of the arts and culture held in Belgium. Major museums throughout Europe (the Louvre, Pforzheim, etc.) and royal families lend precious objects such as jewels and paintings to this exhibit. Of the 230 items on display this time, 28 were either on loan from or arranged by Albion Art.

290th Anniversary of Daimaru's Founding:
"Brilliance of the Belle Epoque"
--From Captivating Jewelry to Art Glass--

Wednesday, September 5 to Monday, September 17, 2007
Daimaru Museum, Shinsaibashi

Wednesday, September 19 to Monday, October 1, 2007
Daimaru Museum, Kobe

Thursday, December 20, 2007 to Sunday, January 6, 2008
Daimaru Museum, Tokyo

This exhibit, created on the occasion of Daimaru's 290th anniversary, brings together in one place the brilliant and joyful jewelry and art glass characteristic of the culture that developed, primarily in Paris, from the end of the 19th century to the years before and after the First World War.

Albion Art has been involved in this exhibit from the planning stage. Of the objects on display 43 are on loan from, or were arranged by, Albion Art.

"The Tiara Exhibit,"
Radiance of Princesses--A World of Brilliant Jewelry--

Saturday, January 20 to Sunday, March 18, 2007
Bunkamura The Museum

Sunday, April 1 to Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Niigata Prefectural Bandaijima Art Museum

Saturday, June 9 to Sunday, July 22, 2007
The Museum of Kyoto

In this first-ever tiara exhibit in Japan we have gathered some 100 superb tiaras on special loan from around the world: European royal and aristocratic houses, European and American museums and private collections.

Albion Art has been involved in this exhibit from the planning stage. Of the objects on display 37 are on loan from, or were arranged by, Albion Art.

Birth Stones: An Exhibit of Brilliant Jewelry
--The Hidden Stories of Birth Stones--

Saturday, October 7, 2006 to Sunday, January 14, 2007
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

This exhibit introduces a variety of jewelry--tiaras, rings, necklaces, earrings, etc.--from the modern perspective of birth stones, together with the "language of gems" which explains what each gem symbolizes.

The 40 objects on display are principally from private collections, primarily the Albion Art Collection.

Two tiaras from the Albion Art Collection were on display at the WARTSKI exhibition in London, May 2006.

WARTSKI's May exhibition, "Faberge and the Russian Jewellers"

May 10 to 20, 2006
WARTSKI, 14 Grafton Street, London

Albion Art items on display:
1. Faberge Tiara
2. Faberge Emerald and Diamond Brooch

Albion Art loaned, or arranged for the loan, of 19 objects to the following international exhibit:

The Glory of Napoleon--the Splendor of Culture and One Man's Spirit

Thursday, November 3 to Friday, December 23, 2005
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Thursday, January 5 to Sunday, February 12, 2006
Fukuoka Art Museum

Saturday, February 18 to Sunday, March 19, 2006
The Kagawa Museum, Takamatsu

Saturday, March 25 to Sunday, April 7, 2006
Kansai International Culture Center

Objects on Display:
1. Diamond Brooch with Miniature of Alexander I
2. Brooch with Initial, Alexander I
3. Berlin Iron Parure
4. Bonzanigo Parure
5. Malachite Cameo Suite
6. Coral Cameo Comb
7. Jupiter Serapis Comb
8. "Octavianus and Livia" Pendant by Pistrucci
9. Heracles Intaglio Ring
10. Intaglio Brooch of Heracles at the Crossroads
11. George IV Intaglio
12. Napoleon III Cameo
13. Empress Eugenie Pendant
14. Napoleon III Presentation Bowknot Pendant
15. Garter Insignia
16. Princess Margherita Tiara by Mellerio
17. Ekaterina II's Beloved Diamond Flower Brooch
18. Ruby and Diamond Necklace
19. Diamond and Sapphire Hat Pin, Russian Crown Jewel

Napoleon and Versailles Exhibit

Saturday, December 3, 2005 to Sunday, March 19, 2006
Kobe City Museum

Saturday, April 8 to Sunday, June 18, 2006
Edo-Tokyo Museum

Albion Art has loaned, or arranged for the loan, of the following six items to the "Napoleon and Versailles Exhibit," co-sponsored by the Nikkei, the Chateau de Versailles, and the museums where the exhibit is held.

1. Cameo with Portrait of Napoleon
2. Napoleon I Cameo
3. Cameo of Pius VII at Prayer
4. Ring Presented by the Pope
5. Tiara with a Wheat Ear Motif
6. Suite of Doves Drinking Water

Napoleon in Love

September 22 to December 2, 2004
CHAUMET PARIS

In 2004, Albion Art loaned, or arranged for the loan, of the following fifteen items to the exhibit "Napoleon in Love: Love and glory in the Jewelry of the Emperor Napoleon," held at the Chaumet Museum on the Place Vendome in Paris, France.

1. Napoleon 1 Cameo
2. Bonzanigo Parure
3. Coral Hair Comb
4. Berlin Iron Parure
5. Hamilton Box
6. Miniature of the Bonaparte Family and Memorial Jewel
7. Cameo of Pius VII at Prayer
8. Empress Eugenie Pendant
9. Tiara with a Wheat Ear Motif
10. Badge of a Lady-in-Waiting at the Russian Court
11. Cameo with Portrait of Napoleon
12. Suite of Doves Drinking Water
13. Moss Agate Earrings
14. Malachite Parure
15. Ring Presented by the Pope

Chaumet from Napoleon to Today

June 17 to 21, 2004
The State Historical Museum

We loaned or arranged the loan of the following four items to the " Chaumet from Napoleon to Today" exhibit held in Moscow, Russia.

1. Napoleon I Cameo
2. Cameo with Portrait of Napoleon
3. Diamond and Sapphire Stomacher by Chaumet
4. Winged Tiara by Chaumet

The Splendor of Diamonds: 400 Years of European Jewelry

October 7 to December 21, 2003
Tokyo National Museum

January 9 to February 27, 2004
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art


"The Splendor of Diamonds: 400 Years of European Jewelry" exhibit was held in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art from January 9 to February 27, 2004. It featured 200 works that illustrated the changes in diamond jewelry over 400 years, from the 16th century to the end of the 20th century. On display are brilliant items of jewelry from the Louvre Museum and from collections of aristocrats around the world. Albion Art contributed 20 pieces of jewelry to the exhibit.

Catalog: Jan Walgrave, "The Splendour of Diamond," Apt International, 2003.

400 Years of European Jewelry

Thursday, April 24 to Tuesday, July 1, 2003 (Tokyo Exhibit)
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Saturday, July 12 to Sunday, August 24, 2003 (Fukuoka Exhibit)
Fukuoka City Museum

Saturday, August 30 to Tuesday, September 23, 2003 (Nagoya Exhibit)
Matsuzakaya Art Museum

Saturday, October 25 to Tuesday, November 30, 2003 (Kyoto Exhibit)
Museum Eki Kyoto

From the Renaissance to the 1930s, 400 years. This world-class exhibit presents 280 pieces of splendid jewelry. Some, from the collections of British aristocrats, are on display for the first time and may never be shown again. Others are from the Ashmolean Museum, the Pforzheim Museum, the British Museum, and noted jewelers such as Cartier, Chaumet, Mellerio Dits Meller, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Mikimoto. Japanese collectors and museums have contributed to this exhibit, and Albion Art collaborated as well.

LIVING DIAMONDS

October 10 to November 10, 2002
DIAMOND MUSEUM, Antwerp

Albion Art contributed three items for display in the LIVING DIAMONDS exhibit at the Diamond Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, including:

Ekaterina II's Beloved Diamond Flower Brooch
Princess Margherita's Tiara by Mellerio

DIAMANTI

March 1 to June 30, 2002
PALAZZO QUILINARE

Albion Art contributed three pieces to the diamond exhibit held at the Quilinare Palace in Rome, Italy:

Renaissance Diamond Cross
Baroque Diamond Cross
Table Cut Diamond Ring

TIARA

March 1 to June 25, 2000

Albion Art contributed 8 tiaras to the "Supreme Glory: 200 years of Tiaras" exhibit at the Boston Museum, USA.

1998
Albion Art exhibited original drawings by Modigliani.

1996
Albion Art opened its first jewelry collection at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.

1993
"Original Water Color Collection from the Daume Family" opens at the Albion Art Gallery

1992
"Saint Catherine of Alexandria" given to the Mie Art Museum.

Durer and Rembrandt etchings displayed at Oita Prefecture's Yufuin Art Museum and the Albion Art Gallery. (Photo: Rembrandt's bronzeplate etching "Portrait of Jan Lutma, Goldsmith." Size 19.6x15 cm.

1991
"Alfonso Musha Exhibit" opens at the Albion Art Gallery.

(Photo: "Archbishop Farley," oil painting. Size 220x135 cm. Dated 1904-8.)

1989
Contributed Murillo's "Saint Catherine of Alexandria" to the Fukuoka International Hall's "Exhibit of a Single Spanish Baroque Painting." Commemorative lecture "Encountering Art on a Journey" by Mr. Hiroyuki Itsuki.

(Photo: Oil on canvas, size 165x110.4 cm. Dated 1645-50. Formerly the property of King Louis Philippe of France, displayed in the gallery of Spanish painting at the Louvre Museum from 1838-1848.)

1988
Albion Art Gallery opens, dedicated to Western painting and antiques.

"Joan Miro Exhibit" held at the Albion Art Gallery.