Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Early Chests in Wood and Iron
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office. MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Gems in the Early Modern World
Author: Michael BycroftPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319963791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
Divided Kingdoms
Author: John SillsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780956688934
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Birds
Author: Saint-John PersePublisher:
ISBN: 9781852353384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Saint-John Perse A version by Derek Mahon These are birds, pure and simple, nothing more, their truth the secret of life itself . . . Derek Mahon s previous translation work includes versions of Jaccottet (Words in the Air, 1998) and Valéry (The Seaside Cemetery, 2001). To these he now adds Birds by Saint-John Perse whose long, discursive, musical texts owe something to Rimbaud s Illuminations but are finally unique. Among twentieth-century poets Perse is remarkable for his oceanic qualities, his global reach and philosophical optimism. Birds is about birds, but also about the artistic vocation itself, Yeats s lonely impulse of delight
Catalogue
Author: Christie LondonCatalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
Author: John Pierpont MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
English Homes
Author: Henry Avray TippingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Steuben Crystal
Author: Steuben Glass (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crystal glass
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description