A unicorn horn, also known as an alicorn, is a legendary object whose reality was accepted in Europe and Asia from the earliest recorded times. This "horn" comes from the creature known as a unicorn, also known in the Hebrew Bible as a re'em or wild ox. Many healing powers and antidotal virtues were attributed to the alicorn, making it one of the most expensive and reputable remedies during the Renaissance, and justifying its use in the highest circles. Beliefs related to the alicorn influenced alchemy through spagyric medicine. The horn's purificational properties were eventually put to the test in, for example, the book of Ambroise Paré, Discourse on unicorn.
The unicorn throne in Denmark.
Left panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (1503-1504), showing unicorns purifying water.
Ainkhürn, "unicorn horn", offered to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I in 1540, exhibited at Wiener Schatzkammer.
Three unicorn horns from the Mariakerk in Utrecht, now on display at the Rijksmuseum.
Coronation Chair of Denmark
The Coronation Chair of Denmark is the chair formerly used in the coronation of the Danish monarch.
The Throne Chair today.
The silver lions in front of King Frederick V's castrum doloris in 1766. By unknown (1766?)
One of the three lions in Rosenborg Castle.
The Coronation Chair and King Frederick VI. By Wilhelm Bendz (1830)
