There are a number of other thorn relics said to have come from the relic in the Paris Sainte Chapelle, including the far smaller Salting Reliquary in the British Museum, a French pendant of about 1340.
Furniture and housewares will be discounted 30 to 70 percent at BoConcept's warehouse sale on Saturday (the Mezzo 2 1/2 seater leather sofa, originally $4,440, will be about $1,000; the Tulip pendant, regularly about $1,250, will be about $400; and the Versa sofa bed, formerly about $1,000, will be about $500 18080 Pulaski Street (Pulaski Lane), Bayonne, N.J., (201) 433-4461 or boconcept.com.
"Dressing Up and Dressing Down in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Costumee in Art," through Aug. 25, contains about 35 pieces, including a 16th-century prayer book with images of jeweled pendants (about $91,000) and a 1460s German watercolor of executioners wearing fashionable short robes in a depiction of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents (about $21,000).
Thirty-five years on, she hasn't ceased: swishing about in a bat-winged cape and a diamante half-moon pendant, and bleating about a "woman taken by the sky".
What, I wondered, was the provenance of the socking great pendant that hung about her neck in Juergen Teller's photograph?
Dressed like a Bosnian Isaac Hayes (with sparkling lights attached to my skull, a psychedelic shirt, and a New Age pendant), I ranted about the malignant idiocy of the Bush regime.
Why all that fuss about a pendant which, since it belonged to Claire, was totally useless as evidence?
It has spikes covered with pendant coral-coloured flowers about the size of lily of the valley bells.
Click here to learn more about the pendant or to make a donation to support the women of Femmes en Démocratie.
