Vitrine 7
Jewelry and fragrance - limited & coveted
Description
The wearing of overly luxurious jewelry was restricted in Basel by the Reformation ordinances. The strict prohibitions were partly circumvented, for example by replacing precious stones with cut glass stones. The portrait shows Katharina Birr (1680-1763), wife of the ribbon manufacturer and later mayor of Basel Emanuel Falkner, wearing two pendants, each attached to a ribbon on her neck and dress. Watches were also attached to clothing with the help of a chatelaine (belt chain) as jewelry. A large number of jewelry cassettes and perfume flacons have been preserved in Basel. They were popular luxury goods and gifts of love.
Selection
1: Portrait of Catharina Falkner - Birr (1680-1763)
2: Pair of shoe buckles, in leather case
3: Octagonal jewelry box
4: Heart-shaped box with the depiction of a pair of lovers
5: Box with pincushion
6: Jewelry box with pincushion for clothes and hairpins
7: Three cases for finger rings
8: Finger ring in case
9: Finger ring
10: Pendant
11: Châtelaine (belt chain for attaching a pocket watch)
12: Pocket watch with châtelaine
13: Pocket watch with châtelaine in case
14: Jewelry case with portrait medallion of the client
15: Oval silver filigree box
16: Opened jewelry box with necklace and rings
17: A pair of earrings in case
18: Diadem / part of a plug-in comb
19: Perfume flacon with case
20: Silver perfume flacon
21: Perfume flacon with raffia
22: Spherical fragrance flacon with raffia wickerwork
23: Scented flacon with cupid
24: Perfume flacon with silver filigree medallion
25: Scented flacon with lovers
26: Perfume bottle
27: Silver perfume flacon with chinoiseries
29: Perfume flacon with portrait medallions
30: Blue glass perfume bottle
31: Scent flacon made of brownish glass