Angevin Crown of Queen Elizabeth Kotromanić

Central Europe, the 2^nd half of the 14^th century, gilded silver, pearls, precious and semi-precious stones

Zadar, the Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art

The Angevin crown of Queen Elizabeth Kotromanić, wife of Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Croatia, is one of the most beautiful exhibits in Zadar's Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art. Enhanced by more than one hundred precious stones to gird for the most prestigious kingdom heads, it may be the most precious of all, and provides a final illustration of the excellence of goldsmithing and jewellery at the time of the Angevin kings. The Queen kept it in the Chest of St Simeon, and recently the crown was exhibited at the National Museum of the Middle Ages - Musée de Cluny in Paris.