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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIV.
In front of the throne stand the coronation chairs of the
king and queen, placed under a dais ; that of the king
is formed of the ivory of the narwal. It was constructed
by order of Christian IV., and was first used at the
coronation of Prince Christian (called V.), elected to
the throne during the lifetime of his father, who
survived him.
Within this castle of Rosenborg is contained the
regalia of the country, among which appear brilliant
and dazzling the jewels of Queen Madalena; she
bequeathed them to the country with whose money they
had been purchased.
The crown of Christian IV., by Thomas Fiuren of
Odense, of gold enamel and jewels, is perhaps the finest
specimen of the goldsmith’s art in the seventeenth
century now extant. It is no longer used, being that of
is a stiff contest between the Dutch and Italians which should exceed
in this mystery; and therefore Klein endeavoured to unite their
perfections. After his return to Denmark he was invited thence into
England by Prince Charles, a virtuoso, judicious in all liberal
mechanical arts which proceeded in due proportion. And though
Klein chanced to come over in his absence (being then in Spain), yet
King James gave order for his entertainment, allowing him liberal
accommodations; and sent him back to the King of Denmark with a
letter which, for the form thereof, I conceive not unworthy to be
inserted, transcribing it with my own hand as followeth, out of a copy
compared with the original.” We spare the reader his Majesty’s Latin
epistle.
“ I perceive that princes when writing to princes subscribe their
names, and generally superscribe them to subjects. But the King of
Denmark detained him all that summer (none willingly part with a
jewel) to perfect a piece which he had begun for him before. This
ended, then over he comes, and settled with his family in London,
where he received a gratuity of an hundred pounds per annum, well
paid him until the beginning of our civil wars. And now fervet opus
of tapestry at Moreclark, his designing being the soul, as the working
is the body, of that mystery.”—Fuller’s ‘ Worthies,’ p. 353.
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