Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
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Publisher
New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2009.
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GQ 2018/1333
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 426 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
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 Hasting...
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Publisher
New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2009.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2009.
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Full title
Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery / Marcia Pointon.
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Cultural history of gem stones and jewellery.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
State Reference Library copy at GQ 2018/1333 : transferred from NQ391.7/16
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c2009.
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Call Numbers
GQ 2018/1333
Record Identifier
74Vv0lWLDedM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv0lWLDedM
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ISBN
0300142781 (cl : alk. paper)
9780300142785 (cl : alk. paper)
DDC
391.7
MMS ID
991015961439702626
