Jewels and costumes of Pomeranian dukes National Museum in Szczecin

The collection includes jewels of Pomeranian princes from the Gryfit dynasty, from the crypt of the castle church in Szczecin. Most of them were excavated in 1946 from the sarcophagus of Prince Francis I, who died in 1620 (1577–1620). The ensemble includes ornaments for hubcaps (egrets and rosettes), pendants, chains, bracelets, rings, sewn-on pontalikas and pendent fittings. In addition to the silver fittings of the pendent, the jewels are made of gold, decorated with colored enamel and niellem, set with diamonds, rubies, pearls and turquoise. Jewelry with renaissance and mannerist forms was created in the period from the second half of the XVI to 1637. The jewels are associated with the names of leading German and Pomeranian goldsmiths of that period, such as Jacob Mores St. from Hamburg, Gabriel Gipfel and Christian Dürr from Dresden and Egidius Blanke from Szczecin. A valuable testimony to the culture of the Griffin court and European courts of that time.