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2024
Book
Decoding the jewels: Renaissance jewellery in Scotland
For the first time, National Museums Scotland’s important collection of Renaissance jewellery from Scotland is considered together alongside significant jewels from the Royal Collection and elsewhere. The book was inspired by the acquisition by NMS of the extraordinary Fettercairn Jewel: the fine iconography of this exquisitely enamelled locket held coded...Groundwater, Anna
Scottish history, Mary Queen of Scots, objects, jewellery history, Stuarts, Renaissance, material culture, and art history
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2024
Book chapter
Foreword
At National Museums Scotland we have a small but stellar collection of Renaissance jewellery associated with Scotland in the sixteenth century. Highlights of this collection include the pearl- encrusted gold locket and fillgree bead necklace of the Penicuk Jewels, associated with Mary, Queen of Scots, and the finely enamelled Fettercairn...Alberti, S J M M
Scottish history, jewellery history, Stuarts, and Renaissance
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2024
Book chapter
The Mystery of the Fettercairn Jewel
When the Fettercairn Jewel was discovered wrapped in paper at the back of a drawer at Fettercairn House, Aberdeenshire, in 2017. It was quickly recognised as an astounding piece of late sixteenth-century jewellery. But with little recorded provenance, and no obvious clues to its early history, it posed many questions.Wyld, Helen
Renaissance, material culture, Scottish history, art history, and jewellery history