A Royal Renaissance Treasure and Its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt Schroder Timothy
At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the…
Specifikacia A Royal Renaissance Treasure and Its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt Schroder Timothy
At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the royal goldsmith to Francis I, the Clock Salt is somewhere between a jewel and a table ornament. Now part of the collection of the Goldsmiths' Company in London, it is one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the renowned Jewel House of Henry VIII. It is unknown whether it was a diplomatic gift from Francis I or whether Henry VIII bought the Clock Salt himself; regardless, the object raises interesting questions about the role of diplomatic gifts at the Tudor court which is a subject addressed by a number of the authors.Many questions still remain about the Clock Salt's history following its sale in the aftermath of the English Civil War, but this publication presents the