25,000 years of jewelry
Subtitle: from the collections of the Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin
By: edited for the Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin by Maren Eichhorn-Johannsen and Adelheid Rasche in collaboration with Astrid Bähr and Svenia Schneider ; translation from the German: Bram Opstelten
Contributors: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9783791352978
Subjects: Catalogs; Jewelry; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz; History
Other titles: Twenty-five thousand years of jewelry; Jewelry
Work titles: 25000 Jahre Schmuck. English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-383).
Table of contents: title: Jewelry in ancient Egypt / Klaus Finneiser; title: Jewelry sets from the late Bronze Age / Alix Hänsel; title: Etruscan gold work / Gertrud Platz-Horster; title: Woven jewelry : textile imitation of jewelry from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period / Cäcilia Fluck; title: Notes on the value of "jewelry" in pre-Columbian America / Manuela Fischer; title: Jewelry in the medieval Islamic world / Gisela Helmecke; title: The royal Gnadenpfennig (1610) / Elke Bannicke; title: Precious stones and valuable jewelry at Indian royal courts / Raffael Gadebusch; title: Remarks on modern-era garment jewelry / Adelheid Rasche; title: Egidius Verhelst's portrait of electress Elisabeth Auguste of Palatine-Sulzbach and Bavaria / Julia Sedda; title: "What the war spared" : the jewelry collection of Aloys and Maria Lautenschläger at the Kunstgewerbemuseum / Christine Waidenschlager; title: Historical jewelry of the Erzya and Moksha (Mordvins) in Russia / Elisabeth Tietmeyer; title: Memorial, friendship, and mourning jewelry / Svenia Schneider; title: Berlin iron jewelry : "gold I gave in return for iron" / Svenia Schneider; title: Hair accessories in the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maren Eichhorn-Johannsen; title: Jewels from South- and Southeast Asia : the people of the Golden Triangle and the Naga of India / Roland Platz; title: Sounds and scents : jewelry from the Middle Sepik region in Papua New Guinea / Markus Schindlbeck; title: Adorned and protected : amulets and talismans as exemplified by children's garments among the Turkmen / Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck; title: A surrealist jewel : Salvador Dali's Portrait of Mrs. Isabel Styler-Tas (Melancolia) / Dieter Scholz; title: A special look : the evolution of the jewelry collection of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christine Binroth, Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow.