Art Bite: A New Portrait of Henry VIII's Final Queen
Art of History
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The Pear Shaped Jewel That Belonged to Catherine Howard
This piece of jewelry was recorded in inventories of jewels belonging to Catherine Parr. The bottom is shaped like an oval, so it's like stacked. That jewel also appears in a portrait that we definitively know is of Jane Seymour. So that pear shaped jewel was inventoried as belonging to Jane Seymour as a gift from the king and also as belonging to Catherine Howard.
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