Holy Thorn Reliquary
The Holy Thorn Reliquary was probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry, to house a relic of the Crown of Thorns. It is one of a small number of major goldsmiths’ works or joyaux that survive from the extravagant world of the Valois royal family around 1400. The front view shows the end of the...
