Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker Archived Message
Posted by Juscha on January 31, 2012, 2:56 pm, in reply to "Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker"
Good point, Alejandro, I suppose her mother won´t give two tiaras. To be honnest, I think it looks much more like 'Wilhelm', certainly with taste but also big. But this is just a sidenote, very unscholarly . Koch might be indeed one of the sujects we have to think of. We should search for the company history and for some of his creations. Was he courtjeweller around that time? By now I couldn´t find so many informations about him. Apart from the prussian tiara of Viktoria Luise, maybe CP Cecilie´s mäander tiara, at last surprisingly worn by Princess Sophie of Isenburg at her wedding might be by him or by Friedländer as Ursula wrote on her side. Also the Baden Palmette is credited to him. This piece is much more early that the others. All are wonderful, but also more fragile and of more clear and straight (to say so) style. Personally I like them very much. The question is if the company or the artists would change her specific style in the 1880th so much? --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 chosen 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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