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Medieval Jewellery in Europe 1100-1500
by Marion Campbell
Jewelry holds a special significance in all cultures. The jewelry worn in medieval Europe was important as an indicator of the wearers social status and wealth, faith and superstition, allegiances and literacy. This stunning book draws on the major collection at the V&A to focus on the heart of the Medieval period from 1100 to 1500. Royalty and the nobility wore gold, silver, or precious gems, while humbler ranks wore base metals, copper ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$30.00, Our Price US$24.00
Byzantinischer Schmuck des 9. bis frühen 13. Jahrhunderts: Untersuchungen zum metallenen dekorativen Körperschmuck der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit anhand datierter Funde aus Griechenland und Bulgarien
by Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie
English summary: Byzantine luxury items have been neglected in research for a long time, despite the legendary reputation they held as early as the Middle Ages. This volume analyzes the gold, silver and bronze ornaments of the 9th to early 13th Centuries in an interdisciplinary study. An illustrated catalog presents some 170 dated objects, which are placed into a broader context through hundreds of comparative examples and the inclusion of ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$218.00
Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Mirror to the World
by Charlotte Gere and Judy Rudoe
This book rewrites the history of jewellery in the age of Victoria. The 'age of Victoria' is taken in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made throughout Europe and America, displayed at the great international exhibitions and distributed through foreign trade, illustrated publications and a burgeoning tourist industry. Throughout, links with other disciplines will provide both the specialist and the non-specialist with the information to ...
Hardback. Price US$110.00
Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment
by Truus Daalder, with photographs by Jeremy Daalder
The care with which this book has been prepared is simply astonishing. Its history began when Truus and Joost Daalder acquired their first examples of non-European ethnic body adornment around 1980, four years after their arrival in Adelaide. Creating this magnificent publication has involved much travel and research, and a passionate author Truus Daalder, a collector born into a collector's family.
Today the Daalder collection of ethnic ...
Hardback. Price US$175.00
The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The 'Ordos Bronzes,' Peter the Great's Treasure, and their Kin
by John Boardman
This is a study of the relief plaques of the 'Ordos bronzes' and their kin in north China and Central Asia, including Peter the Great's Treasure in the State Hermitage, St Petersburg. It attempts to classify them by shape, style and iconography, and to trace their origins, listing and illustrating as many specimens as seemed necessary to convey to the reader the unity of individual series as well as their variety. One class is distinguised as ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00
Aegaeum 31: Aegean and Cypro-Aegean Non-Sphragistic Decorated Decorated Gold Finger Rings of the Bronze Age
edited by I. Pini
For the Aegean Bronze Age, gold finger rings immediately call to mind the many gold signet rings and impressions thereof on clay sealings from both Crete and the Greek mainland; such items continue to be found in new excavations. The numerous seal impressions demonstrate that the rings were primarily used for administrative purposes. These are excluded from the present study, which focuses instead on the non-sphragistic decorated finger rings ...
Hardback. Price US$87.00
Le Fibule dell'Italia meridionale e della Sicilia dall' età del bronzo recente al VI secolo a.C.
by Fulvia Lo Schiavo
With this work, the existence of a huge collection of brooches from the central Mediterranean landscape is for the first time presented and edited like a corpus. It reflects the relationship to the east Adriatic and Aegean, as well as the western Mediterranean regions, but also on past the Apennine peninsula to the north-reaching regions. The more than 8,000 bronze brooches, presented almost invariably at a scale of 1:3 on 739 panels, come mainly ...
Hardback. Price US$435.00
Maharaja: Pracht der indischen Fürstenhöfe
edited by Anna Jackson, Amin Jaffer, and Christiane Lange
The treasures of India are among the great mysteries of the West. With them the culture of the Maharajas is connected, whose incomparable splendor is presented in the catalog for the unique exhibition in Munich. At the same time the fascinating historical development of the role of the Maharajas from the early 18th Century to the last days of the Raj is told.
The Maharajas of India have captured the imagination of the West with the ...
Hardback. Price US$59.00
Jewellery in Malta: Treasures from the Island of the Knights (1530-1798)
by Francesca Balzan
Researched and written by Francesca Balzan, this study has made extensive use of primary sources to build up a history of jewellery in Malta, which focuses on the art of jewellery, its social history and trade practices, and is the first study of its kind to be published in Malta. The book is in two parts, the first of which contains essays on historical aspects of Jewellery in Malta while the second part is devoted to analytical case studies of ...
Hardback. Price US$125.00
Oreficerie toscane medioevali e rinascimentali nella collezione Raspini
by Chiara Sabbadini Sodi
Presentation of two dozen sacred goldsmith's works, including chalices, reliquaries and censers from the medieval and Renaissance collection of Giovanni Raspini. Comparison with similar objects, particularly those housed by Florentine churches and museums, reveals a high level of authenticity for these objects, in addition to the collaboration between the different regional workshops. Each object is individually presented, with information on its ...
Hardback. Price US$46.00
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