Katherine Purcell, joint managing director of Wartski, is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and chairman of the Society of Jewellery Historians. She specializes in French nineteenth-century jewelry and works of art. She has written a number of articles for The Antique Collector, Apollo, and The Magazine Antiques on subjects including the Parisian jewelry firm Falize, the master of Art Nouveau René Lalique, and the influence of Japanese art on Western jewelry and goldsmiths’ work. She has contributed to the books Master Jewellers (Thames and Hudson, 1990), Dictionnaire International du Bijou (Regard, 1998), and Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837–1987 (Yale, 2006), focusing on Tiffany and Paris. Her definitive study Falize: A Dynasty of Jewelers was published in 1999 by Thames and Hudson and her translation of Henri Vever’s three-volume French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century was printed in 2001. Among the exhibitions Purcell has curated for Wartski are French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century (2001), Fabergé and the Russian Jewellers (2006), Japonisme from Falize to Fabergé (2011), and Fabergé—A Private Collection (2012). She is currently organizing an exhibition entitled From Function to Fantasy: The Brooch, which will take place at Wartski in October 2025 and marks the firm’s 160th anniversary.