Decorative Stone

"Decorative Stone: The Complete Sourcebook" is a comprehensive identification guide to 300 of the most commonly encountered types of polished decorative stone, both ancient and modern. Coupling high-quality images of stones with meticulously researched, authoritative text, it will be an invaluable book for anyone with an interest in the identification and use of decorative stone, including archaeologists, artists, antique restorers, the stone trade, academic departments and museums.

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Monica Price is on the curatorial staff of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. She has written widely on decorative rocks and mineralogical topics, and contributed entries to the Oxford Companion to the Earth and Pocket Nature: Rocks and Minerals.

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1. Decorative stone, past and present; 2. Identifying Decorative Stone; 3. The Stones: Alabasters; Marbles and limestones; Lumachellas and other fossiliferous limestones; Ruin and landscape marbles Serpentinites and ophicalcites; Other metamorphic rocks; Basalts, porphyrics and other volcanic rocks; Granites, syenites, gabbros and other plutonic rocks; Sandstones, quartzes and siliceous conglomerates Quartz and its varieties; Other minerals used as polished stone.

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