Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker Archived Message
Posted by Maridje  on January 30, 2012, 3:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker"
Alejandro
When the Queen Sophie diadem wore by the Duchess Aoste was auctioned ? Have you a pic please
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: Queen Sophie received from her mother empress
: Victoria the diadem that the Duchess of
: Aosta wore several times and was auctioned
: some years ago. I think that the big diamond
: diadem was a gift from her brother.
:
: When princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
: married, the jeweller choosen by her father
: to make the tiara that she received was
: Koch. Maybe the Kaiser chose the same
: jeweller to make the tiara gifted to her
: sister the queen of Greece?
:
: Regards!
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: Dear Fellow-Posters!
:
: Much more than in all this about why it´s
: not worn or who inherited it, I´m interested
: in the question about the style and the
: maker of the wonderful tiara of Queen Sophie
: of Greece.
:
: I´ve looked at all my pictures of tiaras and
: tried to find similarities in style and look
: of this jewel. The assumption that the tiara
: has been a gift to Princess Sophie of
: Prussia to the occasion of her marriage with
: Crownprince Konstantin of Greece usually is
: not doubted. They celebrated the engagement
: in 1888, the wedding was in October 1889. So
: it might has been made in this space of
: time, it has to be compared it with other
: jewels of this period.
: I do not know, if the tiara was give by her
: mother or by her brother, an important
: question because it is likely that Wilhelm
: will not have choosen an english jeweller. I
: believe that both prefered a german one, but
: I do not know if the german imperial house
: sometimes ordered jewels from Paris, Vienna
: or St.Petersburg.
:
: So, if you are interested in it, too, let´s
: investigate together:
:
: There are some question I have in mind to
: find out the maker of the tiara:
: Who married at the same period (+/- 5 years
: or so) and get a tiara?
: What kind, what style of tiara?
: Who made it?
: Are there special types of style and looks
: preferred by special families or countries?
: Are there details in décor very similar or
: the same in another jewel?
: Which jeweller made which kind of jewels at
: this time?
:
: With a good research, perhaps we will be
: able to do educated guess, a little bit more
: than speculation.
:
: What I see when "examine" the foto
: Tamara has posted (Thank you!) is a quite
: massive tiara of garland style. The diamonds
: are large, the central stones very large. My
: impression is that the floral elements are
: not so fine and delicate as we can see it
: ten or so years late.
: Regrettably there is very few material of
: the prussian jewels made at this time. I´m
: always astonished to see so many pictures of
: the english royal ladies, but so few of the
: german empresses. So there is nothing to
: compare it with jewels of the Empresses
: Viktoria or Auguste Viktoria.
:
: It isn´t as easy as it seems to find
: substantial jewels of this period.
: I found our Top Hit The Girl of Great
: Britain and Ireland. Made for Princess Mary
: of Teck as a wedding gift in 1893. Some kind
: of floral design, lighter. By Garrards.
: Hm.
: The “Stuart” parure of the Netherland:
: similarities in details, quite massive, ca.
: ten years later made than the Queen Sophies
: by Schürmann in Frankfurt. Schürmann is from
: my point of view a potential candidate as
: maker of queen Sophie´s.
:
: As to see, I need some help.
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