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Three mudejar plasterwork plaques in european museums [PDF]
, 2012 Estas placas inéditas procedentes de Toledo se encuentran en el Victoria & Albert Museum y el Museum für Islamische Kunst de Berlín. Dos de las planchas presentan la singularidad de combinar mocárabes con ataurique y una serie de cabezas humanas en ...
Jordano Barbudo, M. Ángeles
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Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes [PDF]
, 2008 Chinese embroideries have featured in British domestic interiors since at least the seventeenth century. However, Western imperial interests in China during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century created a particular set of meanings around ...
Baker Muriel +7 more
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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HeritageThe Victoria and Albert Museum in London has two ancient Egyptian painted burial shrouds in its collection. Both dating to between the 1st century BCE and early 2nd century CE, they were examined and conserved in preparation for display in the 2025 ...
Katy Smith +3 more
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A royal gift? Mrs Strangways Horner’s small silver clock, 1740
Science Museum Group Journal, 2019 This article celebrates the rediscovery of a small silver-cased clock allegedly given to Mrs Strangways Horner by Lady Archibald Hamilton on behalf of Augusta, Princess of Wales in 1740.
Tessa Murdoch, Jonathan Betts
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Neil Bottle exhibition catalogue [PDF]
, 2010 Neil Bottle exhibition catalogue with a critical review by Sue Prichard, Curator of Fashion and Textiles at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The text is in Welsh and English.
Bottle, Neil, Prichard, Sue
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The object of fashion : methodological approaches to the history of fashion [PDF]
, 2011 This essay considers the role of artefacts in the historical study of dress and fashion and suggests the existence of three different approaches. The field of history of dress and costume has a long tradition going back to the nineteenth century.
Riello, Giorgio
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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A Royal Manuscript of 1809 in the British Library
Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology, 2010 The Korean royal manuscript Gisa jinpyori jinchan uigwe (Record of the Presentation Ceremony and Banquet in the Gisa year), a single volume of 94 folios of illustrations and text, was acquired by the British Museum from a vendor in Paris in 1891, having ...
Beth McKillop
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FTIR surface analysis for conservation
Heritage Science, 2020 Several FTIR techniques are surface-sensitive. This sensitivity can be utilized to help with a wide range conservation issues. Examples from object degradation studies, conservation materials performance assessment and monitoring are presented. These are
David Thickett, Boris Pretzel
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