An illustrated dictionary of jewelry

2,530 entries, including definitions of jewels, gemstones, materials, processes, and styles, and entries on principal designers and makers from antiquity to the present day

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An illustrated dictionary of jewelry

2,530 entries, including definitions of jewels, gemstones, materials, processes, and styles, and entries on principal designers and makers from antiquity to the present day

1st pbk. ed.
  • 12 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

"Of the few dictionaries of jewelry that have been published … this is certainly the best."—Retail Jeweller

From the ‘AA Pendant’ (a jewel in the Green Vault at Dresden) to ‘Zuni jewelry’ (from New Mexico), this popular reference work provides collectors, students and dealers in jewelry with an authoritative fully-illustrated guide to the subject.

Harold Newman, who was a famous collector and writer on the decorative arts, incorporates definitions of terms relating to the processes used in jewelry making, descriptions of the principal gemstones and their characteristics, brief histories of famous named jewels and gemstones, and biographical entries on designers and makers of jewelry from the Renaissance to modern times.

With its extensive cross-referencing and selected bibliographical references for further reading, this volume has no rival. 685 illustrations, 16 in color

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Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Language
English
Pages
334

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Dictionary of jewelry

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
739.27/03
Library of Congress
NK7304 .N43 1987, NK7304.N43 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
334 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
334

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2742582M
ISBN 10
0500274525
LCCN
86051260
Library Thing
80926
Goodreads
938990

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