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

Author/creator Pointon, Marcia R.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionix, 426 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Jewelry--Social aspects.
Jewelry--Psychological aspects.
Art and society.
Jewelry in art.
Clothing and dress in art.
Costume--Great Britain. --History.
Decorative arts--Great Britain. --History.
Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Portion of title Cultural history of gem stones and jewellery
Contents Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 395-410) and index.
LCCN 2009035841
ISBN9780300142785 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0300142781 (cl : alk. paper)

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