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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Brilliant effects : a cultural history of gem stones and jewellery by Marcia R. Pointon. ISBN 9780300142785. Published by Yale University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
