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Jewels at the Court of Henry VIII
by Timothy Schroder FSA
NB: This lecture will replace the original talk for 26 October, which had to be cancelled due to illness.
Henry VIII was obsessed by jewels and amassed vast quantities of gemstones and precious objects. These are listed in extraordinary detail in the great inventory of his possessions (a large part of which is held by the Society of Antiquaries) that was compiled after his death in 1547. In addition to wonderfully finished jewels such as those worn in portraits of the king and his queens, he also hoarded thousands of unmounted stones. But the inventory also makes clear that the term ‘jewel’ applied not only to precious objects of adornment, but to larger objects made in precious materials and which were kept in his private apartments in the Palace of Westminster.
Timothy Schroder is a historian and lecturer on silver and goldsmiths’ work and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is currently President of the Silver Society and is a former Consultant Curator at the V&A and trustee of the Wallace Collection. He has served two terms as Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Publications include British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum (2009) and ‘A Marvel to Behold’, Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII (2020).
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