Iron Necklace, C. 1805

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“A thousand ladies richly dressed, No lady was without her plume, some were blue like the sky, some were tinged with red, here violet and yellow, there shades of green. The dimonds encircling them caught the sun through the windows and threw dazzling beams around. Each lady seemed to rise out of a gilded barricade, it seemed as if the curtain had risen to show a pageant in another sphere

This was the British court in the early nineteenth century as described by Richard Rush, the American Ambassador . . . . If, however, the ambassador had been accredited to Prussia, he would have been confronted with a very different scene. At a court ball there he would have seen jewellery of much more modest sort, such as simple necklace. It is not made of precious metal, nor it is decorated with sparkling precious stones: it is plain, black and made of iron. In Prussia, and especially nineteen-century Prussia, this unglamorous metal, the stuff of swords and helmets, of industry and agricultural implements, had become the material of choice for jewellery with a new purpose -- not the demonstration of wealth, but of patriotism, a symbol of resistance to the French invader. Page 251

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