Silver bridal crown (brudkrona), partly gilded, Sweden, 1750-1870. Small silver-gilt bridal crown with six upright openwork elements of renaissance inspiration, joined together at the top by a ring of silver-gilt wire, with applied winged angels' heads. Numerous pendant leaves on all parts. The band at the base is decorated with pyramidal points and more winged angel's heads in silver. Silver, pa…
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- angel
- Object Type: crown
- Object Type: wedding wreath
- Crown
- Wedding wreath
- crown
- wedding wreath
- 1750/1870
- Material: silver
- Silver
- silver
- angel
- Object Type: crown
- Object Type: wedding wreath
- Crown
- Wedding wreath
- crown
- wedding wreath
- 1750/1870
- Material: silver
- Silver
- silver
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- false
- 1750/1870
- Sweden
- Sweden
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117995
- 1354-1873
- Height 9.6cm, Diameter 14.8cm (unspecified)
- Technique: gilding
- Gilding
- gilding
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
- silver
- United Kingdom
- 2020-04-09T09:16:57.098Z
- 2022-09-30T09:41:10.509Z