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Jewellery

2nd ed. The connoisseur's library Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-379) and index. Contents: Early jewellery. Egyptian jewellery ; Phœnician jewellery -- Greek jewellery -- Etruscan jewellery -- Roman jewellery -- Byzantine jewellery -- Prehistoric (Celtic) jewellery ; Romano-British jewellery -- The barbaric jewellery of Europe (the Great Migrations) -- Anglo-Saxon jewellery (fifth to seventh centuries), Merovingian jewellery -- Late Anglo-Saxon jewellery (seventh to ninth centuries) -- The Celtic brooch -- The jewellery of the Middle Ages (tenth to fifteenth centuries). Mediæval jewellery (introduction) -- Mediæval England -- The mystery of precious stones -- Head-ornaments ; Necklaces -- Pendants, rosaries, and pomanders -- Brooches : the ring-brooch -- Brooches (contd.) : pectorals -- Rings and bracelets -- Belts and girdles -- Renaissance jewellery. Italy, fifteenth century -- Sixteenth-​century jewellery (general) ; Italy, sixteenth century -- Germany, the Low Countries, Hungary -- France, Spain -- England (Henry VII-Elizabeth) -- Head-ornaments, enseignes, aigrettes, hair-pins, earrings -- Necklaces, neck-chains, and collars -- Neck-pendants -- Rings, bracelets, b

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