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

By: Pointon, Marcia R
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2009.Description: ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.ISBN: 9780300142785Other title: Cultural history of gem stones and jewellerySubject(s): Jewelry -- Social aspects | Jewelry -- Psychological aspects | Art and societyDDC classification: 391.7 Other classification: 21.97
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-410) and index.

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.