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Diamonds An Early History of the King of Gems

Ogden Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780300215663, Yale University Press, April 2018
408 pp., 23.8x17.1 cm, 142 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This richly illustrated history of diamonds illuminates myriad facets of the "king of gems", including a cast of larger-than-life characters such as Alexander the Great, the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and East India Company adventurers. It's an in-dept...

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History of Art

Mirroring China's Past Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes

Wang Tao

ISBN: HB: 9780300228632, Yale University Press, March 2018
264 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 305 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

In ancient China (2000-221 b.c.) elaborate bronze vessels were used for rituals involving cooking, drinking, and serving food. This fascinating book not only examines the cultural practices surrounding these objects in their original context, but it...

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Napoleon The Imperial Household

Cordier Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780300233469, Yale University Press, February 2018
352 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 380 colour and black&white illus.

The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769-1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day. This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the spirit that prevailed in the French court during the...

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Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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Bejewelled Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Awais-Dean Natasha

ISBN: PB: 9780861592098, Casemate, British Museum Press, December 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 160 illus.

Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also...

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Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery

Adamson Glenn, Droth Martina, Olding Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780300227468, Yale University Press, September 2017
472 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 316 colour illus.

For nearly a century British potters have invigorated traditional ceramic forms by developing or reinventing techniques, materials, and means of display. "Things of Beauty Growing" explores major typologies of the vessel – such as bowl, vase, and cha...

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Golden Kingdoms Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas

Pillsbury Joanne, Potts Timothy, Richter Kim N.

ISBN: HB: 9781606065488, Getty Publications, September 2017
320 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity u...

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FABERGE From St Petersburg to Sandringham

Collins Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780946009718, Casemate, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, September 2017
144 pp., 26.5x21 cm, 150 illus.

In 1907 Edward VII commissioned Peter Carl Faberge – court artist-jeweller to imperial Russia – to produce miniature sculptures of animals on the royal estate at Sandringham. Designed to please Queen Alexandra, the project was suggested by the king's...

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bussiere Jean, Lindros Wohl Birgitta

ISBN: PB: 9781606065136, Getty Publications, August 2017
510 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...

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American Furniture 2016 American Furniture Annual

Beckerdite Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780986385704, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, June 2017
200 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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