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The size and beauty of the mounts make this piece an outstanding work of the so-called “Fontainebleau School”, already described in the inventory of goods at the Château de Pau, made for Queen Jeanne III in 1561-1562, among the objects that made up the treasure of the kings of French Navarre. The inventory of her son Henry IV confirms its presence among the royal possessions, this time in Paris, i
Vessel formed by three pieces of rock crystal and two gold mounts. The globular body is carved with gadroons and dart motifs. The short neck is adorned with ova enamelled in blue and a lower spiral moulding in black enamel embedded with a wax reserve, interrupted by red scrolls and others with leaves and white, sky blue and green enamelling, once incrusted with stones. Of these, only two diamonds
