Beret liqueur
In Bern, a beret liqueur is a chain of oval, golden links that was worn several times wrapped over the hat band of the beret by the councilors in the Ancien Régime .
The links of the beret liqueurs usually have a cross profile, alternating in a twisted manner. Before the golden honor chains were used as hat chains, they were worn as body chains. The Bernese Ludwig von Diesbach (1512), Hans Franz Nägeli (1554) or Hans Steiger (1568) wear a simple chain with heavy links around their necks in their portraits. In the 17th century such chains were wrapped several times over the shoulders by dignitaries, mostly as a chain of honor, with a gold medal , for example the mayor Hans Rudolf Sager (around 1620). Portraits with gold chains wrapped around the upper body occur in Bern until around 1650. In 1625 Anna Wyttenbach wore a five-fold chain.
Since the 19th century, the chains - mostly in shortened form - have been worn by women as necklaces or bracelets. The heart-shaped closures are likely a later ingredient.
literature
- Old hat! Bernese headgear from the period 1700 to 1940 , Jegenstorf Castle , exhibition May 7 - October 16, 1988, Bern 1988.
- Georges Herzog u. a. (Ed.): In the shadow of the golden age. Artist and client in the Bernese 17th century , volume 1. Kunstmuseum Bern , Bern 1995, pp. 31–36 (cat. 2, 3A, 3B, 4, 7).
- Peter Jezler ea: Of war and peace. Bern and the Confederates until 1800 , Bern 2003, p. 51.
- Sign of freedom. The Image of the Republic in Art from the 16th to the 20th Century ed. by Dario Gamboni and Georg Germann, Bern 1991.
- Between horror and exultation. From the ancien régime to the federal state 1798–1848. A museum provides witnesses and remnants of this eventful time , Bernisches Historisches Museum (exhibition catalog), Zurich 1998, p. 22.
