Earrings

Author: Daniela Mascetti

Stock information

General Fields

Price : 44.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780500281611
Publisher : thames
Imprint : thames
Contained items :
Weight (g) : 1.16
Publication date : October 1999
Dimensions : 303mm X 226mm X 20mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 44.95
Availability date :
Out of print date :
Agency :
Product Type : books

Special Fields

color :
size :
Author : Daniela Mascetti
Series :
Bind : Paperback
Edition : New edition
Illustrator :
Language :
Dewey classification : 391.7
Reading Level :
Library of Con LOCSH :
Pages : 224
BIC subject :
Illustrations : 600 illustrations, 108 in colour
Colour :
Session :
Deck :
Store Notes :
Translator :
Signed :

9780500281611

Description

A presentation of the history of earrings from prehistory to modern times. It relates how the fashion of wearing precious earrings spread through the Mediterranean region and illustrates earrings covering every period and style from Rococo flowers to chaste Neoclassical discs.

Promotion info

Daniela Mascetti is Deputy Director of Sotheby's jewelry department in London. She has written two books in Italian on 18th- and 19th-century jewelry and is co-author with David Bennett of "Understanding Jewelry".

The historical background - from antiquity to the 17th century; the age of elegance - earrings in the 18th century; the 19th century - riches and revivals; experiment and variety - earrings of today.

1105 Pukuatua Street, Rotorua | Tel: (07) 348-5388 | Email: shop@mcleodsbooks.co.nz