Full Record

Back to Search Results
Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Record number:
43399
Call No:
391.7 POI
Author/s:
Pointon, Marcia R., 1943-
Subject:
Jewellery. ;
Jewellery - Social aspects. ;
Jewellery - Psychological aspects. ;
Art and society. ;
Great Britain - Social life and customs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 1. Fault lines and points of light -- 2. 'A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger' -- 3. Jewel boxes in pictorial narratives -- 4. Something rich and strange -- 5. Marie-Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair -- 6. Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings, and the dangers of diamonds -- 7. Chinese whispers : James Cox's Jewellery Museum-London in the 1770s -- 8. Toys and automata : Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s -- 9. The Treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors -- 10. Secular memorials : mourning and memory in hair jewellery -- 11. Lapidary loves -- 12. Crystalline terminations -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Year:
c2009.
Publication details:
New Haven [Conn.] : published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,
Description:
ix, 426 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm.
ISBN/ISSN:
9780300142785;
Type:
monograph
Item availability
{ 1 } items found
Result
Links
Year
Volume
Part
Status
Location
CallNo
Due Back
1
On shelf
The Mint
391.7 POI
Similar Items