Diana Scarisbrick

Diana Scarisbrick (born 1928) is an English art historian specialising in the history of engraved gems and jewellery.

Scarisbrick was born in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. She worked with the antique jewellery traders S. J. Philips in London, catalogued several significant collections, published scholarly articles and books, and was elected a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries in 1987.

Scarisbrick memorably described Queen Victoria's collections of Scottish jewellery, which include polished pebbles and semi-precious stones reflecting Highland geology, as "mute travel diaries".

Selected publications

 *  Diamond jewelry : 700 years of glory and glamour (London : Thames and Hudson, 2019).
 * (with John Boardman and Claudia Wagner), The Guy Ladrière Collection of Gems and Rings (London : Philip Wilson, 2016).
 * (with Benjamin Zucker), Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014).
 * Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (Thames & Hudson, 2011).
 * Scottish Jewellery: A Victorian Passion (London: Five Continents, 2009).
 * Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty (Thames & Hudson, 2007).
 * (with Takayuki Tōyama), Historic rings : four thousand years of craftsmanship (Tokyo ; London : Kodansha International, 2004).
 * (with Martin Henig), '' Finger rings : from ancient to modern (Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2003).
 * 'The Winter Queen in Exile', Country Life, (19 March 1992), pp. 70-71.
 * 'Anne of Denmark's Jewellery Inventory', Archaeologia, 109 (1991), pp. 193-238.
 * Tudor and Jacobean Jewellery (London: Tate, 1995).
 * Jewellery in Britain 1066 - 1837 : a documentary, social, literary and artistic survey (Wilby : Michael Russell, 1994).
 * Jewellery : makers, motifs, history, techniques (London : Thames and Hudson, 1989).
 * 'Gem Connoisseurship: the 4th Earl of Carlisle's correspondence with Francesco de Ficoroni and Antonio Maria Zanetti', Burlington Magazine, 129:1007 (February 1987), pp. 90–104.
 * 'Forever Adamant: A Renaissance Diamond Ring', Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 40 (1982), pp. 57–64.
 * (with John Boardman), The Ralph Harari collection of finger rings (London : Thames and Hudson, 1977).