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Gems in Transit Contributors

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Marta Ajmar Victoria and Albert Museum (co-organiser)
Maxine Berg University of Warwick
Marjolijn Bol University of Amsterdam
Michael Bycroft University of Warwick (co-organiser)
Helen Clifford University of Warwick
Sven Dupré Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (co-organiser)
Hazel Forsyth Museum of London
Marieke Hendriksen University of Groningen
Karin Hofmeester International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Luca Molà European University Institute, Florence
Marcia Pointon University of Manchester
Marlise Rijks University of Ghent
Kim Siebenhüner University of Berne
Lisa Skogh Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Tim Stanley Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Susan Stronge Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Tijl Vanneste University of Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne
Images, from top: drawing of coral, Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Histoire physique de la mer (1725); coral statuette, Italy 1700-1750 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London; drawing of coral, Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Histoire physique de la mer (1725); silver earring with coral bead and hammered gold beads, Egypt 1860-1872 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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 Coral drawing
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