Cross from the old Tytuvėnai church (1555 - 1614)

In the 14th – 18th
centuries in Europe, alongside locally produced amber works, there were also
imported items decorated with amber, such as furniture, mirrors, boxes,
tableware and cult necessities (crosses, rosaries, altars). Amber was seen not
as a material for jewellery items, but as a valuable material to be used for
decoration only. Amber crafts guilds were concentrated in Königsberg, Danzig,
Lübeck and Brugge. Famous German master craftsmen have created many art works
of this kind (Georg Schreiber, Jacob Heise, Nicolaus Turrow, Gottfried
Wolffram, Christoph Maucher).