If there was any doubt about the blingy garishness of the Tudor court, this is the gift Anne Boleyn gave Henry VIII on New Year's Day 1534. "A goodly gilt bason, having a rail or board of gold in the midst of the brim, garnished with rubies and pearls, wherein standeth a fountain, also having a rail of gold about it garnished with diamonds; out thereof issueth water, at the teats of three naked women standing at the foot of the same fountain." Tudors