Brilliant effects
Subtitle: a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery
By: Marcia Pointon
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780300142785
Other titles: Cultural history of gem stones and jewellery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-410) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: 1. Fault lines and points of light; title: 2. 'A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger'; title: 3. Jewel boxes in pictorial narratives; title: 4. Something rich and strange; title: 5. Marie-Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair; title: 6. Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings, and the dangers of diamonds; title: 7. Chinese whispers : James Cox's Jewellery Museum-London in the 1770s; title: 8. Toys and automata : Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s; title: 9. The Treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors; title: 10. Secular memorials : mourning and memory in hair jewellery; title: 11. Lapidary loves; title: 12. Crystalline terminations; title: Appendices; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.