Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker Archived Message
Posted by Juscha on February 1, 2012, 6:07 am, in reply to "Re: Once again - Queen Sophie´s tiara - style and maker"
Thank you, Martina. I don´t know the prussian clover tiara is by Koch, too. Once it was an unique piece as one of my most favourites, the Rosebud Tiara as Diana Scarisbrick called it. This amethyst and platinum tiara of the Otrante family also is made by Koch. Sorry, can not find a picture. What I can find out about Koch is that the company might been founded in 1879 in Frankfurt a.M. Which means that the Baden Palmette cannot been made by Koch in 1856 like stated here and there. You are right, a good jeweller would have been able to produces whatever the customer wanted. But although fashion changes and a jeweller had to adapt it to survive like other 'creatives', the specific language of his work will be in sight. Faberge, Cartier for example have this specific style of their own. I think a customer, even Wilhelm II., would ordered by the specialist for what he wanted. However, to find the maker more ways had to be gone. For example which were the favourite jewellers of the german imperial house in the 1880s and 1890s? The mentioned tiaras are made ten or twenty years later. --Previous Message-- : According to the official site of the house of : Prussia the clover tiara and the meander : tiara were both made by the court jeweller : Koch in Frankfurt. : : http://www.preussen.de/de/heute/kunstsammlung/diadem-ausstellung_in_japan.html : Koch seemed to court jeweller to several : German royal houses. : I don't know if style is very helpful in : finding the maker. Jewellers just designed : the jewels according to the wishes of their : customers. If some style was popular, they : just copied or varied it. And if Wilhelm II : ordered a massive wall of diamonds for his : sister, every good jeweller would be able to : make it. : : : --Previous Message-- : 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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