John Cherry looked after medieval metalwork at the British Museum from 1964 to 2002. In 2016 he published Richard Rawlinson and his Seal Matrices: Collecting in the Early Eighteenth Century, and ‘Patronage and purpose: goldsmiths and the engraving of silver seal matrices in late Medieval England’ in Orfèverie gothique en Europe: production et réception, ed. E.A. König and M. Tomasi.
