Judy Rudoe
Curator
Nineteenth and twentieth
century collections; jewellery, silver, engraved gems from 1660;
textiles and other East European/Balkan collections from the former
department of Ethnography
Department: Prehistory and Europe
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8629
Email: prehistoryandeurope @
thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Judy Rudoe joined the Museum in 1974 and has specialized in
jewellery, following the Hull Grundy Gift of 1978. In 1986 she took
over the newly-created modern collection to extend the existing
holdings of metalwork, ceramics and glass into the twentieth
century.
Most recently, in 2005, she has assumed responsibility for the
European collections from the former Department of Ethnography
(mostly Eastern Europe and Balkan) and is currently overseeing a
project to catalogue and photograph the European and Asian textiles
prior to their on-line launch as part of the Museum’s web plan.
Current British Museum projects
Project supervisor for cataloguing of
European, Middle Eastern and Asian textiles
Upgrading of computer records prior to online
launch for the following areas: Post-medieval finger rings;
engraved gems; Balkan jewellery; Greek shadow puppets
The collecting of textiles from Eastern Europe and the Balkans
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Previous British Museum projects
Upgrading of computer records prior to on-line
launch for the following areas: Hull Grundy Gift of Jewellery; the
Modern Collection; Victorian Tiles
Curator of ‘Cartier 1900-1939’, and author of
exhibition catalogue, 1997
Lead curator for Gallery 47: Europe, the nineteenth century,
1994
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2007
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Attingham Trust Committee
Member of committee and editorial board
for:
- Society of Jewellery Historians
- Decorative Arts Society
- Tiles & Architectural Ceramics
Society
Publications
J. Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A catalogue of the
British Museum collection (London 1991) (2nd enlarged edition
1994)
J. Rudoe, Cartier 1900-1939, (British
Museum, London 1997) (4th revised edition 1999)
(exhibition catalogue)
J. Rudoe, 'The faking of gems in the 18th century', in M.Jones
(ed.), Why Fakes matter. Essays on problems of
authenticity, (London 1992), pp. 23-31
J. Rudoe, ‘Christopher Dresser and his Sources of Inspiration’,
in M. Whiteway (ed.) Christopher Dresser 1834-1904 (London
2004) pp. 81-93 (Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York and
Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition catalogue)
J. Rudoe, ‘Queen Charlotte’s jewellery: reconstructing a lost
collection’, in J. Marsden (ed.), The Wisdom of George III:
Papers from a Symposium at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace,
June 2004 (London 2005), pp. 179-215