Tag: Jewelry
National Museum Zurich Opens its West Wing
The renovation of the West Wing of the National Museum Zurich is now complete. This wing of the building presents a chamber of treasures in a historical appearance but with state-of-the-art technology and houses one of the largest collections of finger rings of the world.
Empire
On 7 October 2019, auction house Künker will be auctioning a necklace and bracelet made from ancient coins, said to have been commissioned by the great general Napoleon Bonaparte for his younger sister Pauline. That would make sense: In Napoleon’s time, people loved anything that was reminiscent of antiquity.