Iuvelirnoe iskusstvo i material’naia kul’tura. Sbornik statei, vypusk 6 / Jewelry and Material Culture: Collected Articles, issue 6
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Pb. The published here stems from a Hermitage conference in which scholars from over ten Russian museums and universities (and one Japanese institution) presented their research on works of jewelry, metalwork, and ornamental stone carving from collections at the Hermitage and other Russian museums, Western Europe, the Near East, and Asia. Thematic range reflects the Hermitage's encyclopedic scope: for example, pearls in Russian traditional dress, St. George award weapons decorated with diamonds, netsuke in the Russian Ethnographic Museum, monograms on Fabergé works, the interaction between fine and applied arts as seen in the 1911 Imperial Easter egg, jewelry pattern books from eighteenth-century France, netse of the nineteenth century, Mughal jewelry, gifts presented by the thirteenth Dalai Lama to Nicholas II, Chinese jewelry with kingfisher imagery, and a tsuba master of the showa period. This is the first edition in the series to include an English summary for each article and an English table of contents. 359 p., 26 cm, approx. 300 b/w and color illus., Rus. with title page, table of contents, and summaries in ENGLISH. Item #3987
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