The Dunstable Swan Jewel is a gold and enamel brooch in the form of a swan made in England or France in about 1400 and now in the British Museum, where...

coronation, and whose tomb in Westminster Abbey displays motifs of swans. The Dunstable Swan Jewel made in about 1400 is presumed to have been intended as a livery...

question; grander forms would be worn by important persons, with the Dunstable Swan Jewel in enamelled gold a rare survivor. Livery collars were also given...

Sally the Dunstable Witch, 1800s hoax in Dunstable purportedly devised to shame the vicar into cleaning the churchyard Dunstable Swan Jewel, jewel from the...

bosse white enamel on gold; they are comparable to the surviving Dunstable Swan Jewel, probably given by one of Richard's cousins in the House of Lancaster...

carried out excavations of the monastic buildings, during which the Dunstable Swan Jewel was discovered. Parts of the church were excavated by the Department...

and varied from extremely expensive works of jewellery, like the Dunstable Swan Jewel, to simple mold-made badges in lead or other base metals. Specialized...

on these pages under "Items": "Image of St Michael", "The swan badge and the Dunstable Swan", "Brooches" Tait, Hugh (1986), Catalogue of the Waddesdon...

Brooch Annular brooch 13th century French ring brooch 13th century Dunstable Swan Jewel 14th century The early modern period of jewellery extended from 1500...

Prince of Wales, a huge number given the population at the time. The Dunstable Swan Jewel, modelled fully in the round in enamelled gold, is a far more exclusive...

royal badge of the Lancastrian house and party, the white swan, as in the Dunstable Swan Jewel, usually being its pendant. In one of Henry VI's own collars...

that German wines were available within. Swan, Wisbech a badge of many Lancastrian figures—see Dunstable Swan Jewel Talbot or Talbot Arms refers to an actual...

and gems for still more important supporters, like the Lancastrian Dunstable Swan Jewel. The Richard III Society, dedicated to defending Richard III's reputation...

The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a heraldic badge, from c. 1400 (British Museum)...

jewellery, allowing pieces to be reversible. More recently, the bright, jewel-like colours have made enamel popular with jewellery designers, including...

The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge, from ca. 1400 (British Museum)...

Waddesdon Bequest, Paris, France, (14th century) Dunstable Swan Jewel, a gold and enamel brooch in the form of a swan, England, (14th century) A silver astrolabe...

Valois royal family around 1400. It is made of gold, lavishly decorated with jewels and pearls, and uses the technique of enamelling en ronde bosse, or "in...

important clerics, who were often buried in their best clothes and wearing jewels. The main material used for jewelry design in antiquity and leading into...

metals such as lead, but also in very expensive forms such as the Dunstable Swan Jewel. However these are mostly purely decorative, or worn to denote something...

pendant, although a number of actual examples have been excavated (See Dunstable Swan Jewel). Fitzherbert died two years before Richard III lost his crown and...

of print." The objects exhibited included: the Blacas Cameo, the Dunstable Swan Jewel, Royal Gold Cup, Brooch of Lorn, and the Metsys Siena Sieve Portrait...

1966, with curator- and Magnusson-led interviews. Included were the Dunstable Swan Jewel, bronze cooking pots from a Butterknowle mine, carved Celtic stone...

of Dunstable; dissolved; granted to Sir William Pagett 1547 Ruxox Cell Augustinian Canons Regular cell/chapel for retired brothers from Dunstable; founded...