Tudor Heart: A Renaissance gold necklace featuring a French-English pun on the love between Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon

QUICK FACTS Name: Tudor Heart What it is: A gold necklace with a red-enameled pendant Where it is from: Warwickshire, central England When it was made: Circa 1518 Half a millennium after a solid-gold Renaissance necklace was forged, a metal detectorist spotted it poking out of a dried-up pond in central England. The necklace’s heart-shaped…

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