Inventory of Elizabeth I
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The Inventory of Elizabeth I recorded the costume and gold and silver plate belonging to Elizabeth I in several inventories, and other documents, including rolls of New Year's Day gifts. Arthur Jeffer
The Royal Gold Cup is 23.6 cm (9.3 in) high and 17.8 cm (7.0 in) across at its widest point. It weighs 1.935 kg (4.27 lb) of solid gold, enamels and jewels, showing scenes from the life of Saint Agnes. Now in the British Museum, it was item no. 48 in the 1574 inventory, and later given away by James I.
The table fountain designed by Holbein for Anne Boleyn was item no. 998 in the 1574 inventory
A 15th or 16th-century coral branch with "serpent's tongues" intended to test for poison, (Vienna, Treasury of the German Order)
Cornelis Hayes
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Cornelis Hayes or Heys was a Flemish jeweller who settled in London in 1524.
Inventory of Elizabeth I
…4 The queen's crown (intended for a queen consort). no. 5 The queen's sceptre with a dove intended for a queen consort). One sceptre was repaired by Cornelis Hayes for the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and later issued to Dorothy Bulstrode for a masque of Anne of Denmark, and a gold wing was lost. no. 6 A pair of…
Cornelis Heyes may have made jewellery and tableware following the designs of Hans Holbein the younger.