The Imperial Crown or Crown of Charlemagne. With eight gold plates on an iron frame, decorated with jewels and enamel images in the Byzantine style. Couronne de Charlemagne, France, 10th century. Kept in the Imperial Treasures of Vienna. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed by Ferdinand Sere from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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