Queen of Norway's Crown

The crown of Norwegian queens was made at the beginning of the 19th century for the wives of the kings of Norway.

The crown is made of gold, precious stones, pearls and enamel. The golden circlet bears at the top of a series of small beads. The lower edge has small golden beads. On the front sits a large cushion-shaped amethyst. Furthermore, three amethysts, topazes and three two Chrysoprase are mounted in golden frames on the hoop. They alternate with eight smaller amethysts, in the interstices sit sixteen pearls rosettes of seven small pearls. The stones and roses are surrounded by engraved gold foliage. About the hoop is a golden wave band with eight small and eight large teeth, the former being composed of large pearls and latter representing big golden leaves with gold taken gemstones. From them the broad temples that are engraved with filigree patterns and carry six upwards decreasing amethysts and topazes to volutenhaft raise. The Ironing models to vertex slightly and collar in small cylindrical rollers. Then there is a circlet of small beads carrying the blue enameled globe, which is decorated at the equator and on the upper half with rows of pearls, the standing thereon Cross consists of ten beads. The flat, red velvet Kronhaube carries eight formed from beads twig -like tendrils that run behind the little prongs beginning to the middle.

The crown was made ​​for the wife of Charles XIV John of jeweler Erik Adolf Zethelius and supported in 1906 the last time. It is located, as well as the Crown of the Kingdom of Norway in the Norges Bank in Trondheim.