Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery /
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New Haven [Connecticut] :
Yale University Press,
c2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pte. 1.Stories touching stones. Cap. 1. Fault lines and points of light ; Cap. 2. '"A fine brilliant glittering on the little finger" ; Cap. 3. Jewel-boxes in pictorial narratives ; Cap. 4. Something rich and strange
- Pte. 2.Politics and precious stones. Cap. 5. Marie-Antoinette and the diamond necklace affair ; Cap. 6. Charlotte of England, Warren Hastings and the dangers of diamonds
- Pte. 3.Mechanical pleasures. Cap. 7. Chinese whispers: James Cox's jewellery museum-London in the 1770s ; Cap. 8. Toys and automata: Jaquet-Droz and Leschot-Neuchâtel, Paris, London in the 1780s
- Pte. 4.Jewellery: display and consumption . Cap. 9. The treasury of the Santa Casa at Loreto and its English visitors ; Cap. 10. Secular memorials: mourning and memory in hair jewellery
- Pte. 5.John Ruskin and his world. Cap. 11. Lapidary loves ; Cap. 12. Crystalline terminations.