“Rarity” – a keyword in early modern sources, but also an ever-evolving concept – emerges as an underrated criterion to understand how different systems of value consider provenance, materiality, artificium, production and circulation, as well as the overlapping forms of usage and memory embodied in objects such as gems.

The Multiple Facets of Rarity: Gems and Gemstones in the Pre-modern Period

Cupperi, Walter
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Abstract

“Rarity” – a keyword in early modern sources, but also an ever-evolving concept – emerges as an underrated criterion to understand how different systems of value consider provenance, materiality, artificium, production and circulation, as well as the overlapping forms of usage and memory embodied in objects such as gems.
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