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Marcia R. Pointon
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Yale University Press
Language
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Subjects
Jewelry, Art and society, Psychological aspects of Jewelry, Social aspects, Social aspects of Jewelry, Psychological aspects

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Table of Contents

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
Bibliography.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Titles
Gems and jewellery as agency in history, literature, and the visual arts

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Dewey Decimal Class
391.7
Library of Congress
GT2250 .P65 2009

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p. cm.

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OL23712843M
ISBN 13
9780300142785
LCCN
2009035841

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