Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.

Pointon, Marcia R, Brilliant effects , 2009

Creator:: Pointon, Marcia R.
Title(s):: Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Additional Title(s):: Gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts
Published/Created:: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:: ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Holdings:: Reference Library
GT2250 .P65 2009 (LC) Oversize
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Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9136103
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Terms:: Art and society.
Jewelry -- Psychological aspects.
Jewelry -- Social aspects.
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Introduction
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
Bibliography.

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