Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker Archived Message
Posted by Maridje on January 31, 2012, 3:01 am, in reply to "Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker"
Thank you very much. I forget that the Duchess of Aosta was the daughter of Queen Sophie of Greece. --Previous Message-- : Empress Victoria gave to queen Sophia a diadem : that the Duchess of Aosta inherited: : : : : : : Regards! : : --Previous Message-- : Alejandro : : When the Queen Sophie diadem wore by the : Duchess Aoste was auctioned ? Have you a pic : please : : --Previous Message-- : 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! : : --Previous Message-- : 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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