I took an other look at the collar necklace and the sapphires in the necklace are oval shaped, not round. Another difference with the tiara. Also I believe Emma received the bow brooch with the large oval sapphire a year before she received the tiara. Just like the oval pendant it was a present from the King. Emma was photographed wearing both pieces as early as 1879.
--Previous Message-- : I think that necklace in it's original shorter : design resembles the elements in the tiara a : lot without being an exact copy (like the : wedding gift saphire parure of Queen : Wilhelmina). Both the tiara and the necklace : have diamond three fold elements between : diamond surrounded saphires and round : diamonds above the saphire elements. As the : necklace probably was designed with the : earlier pendant as a possible addition in : mind the central element of the tiara wasn't : copied in the necklace. : : : : --Previous Message-- : My theory is that perhaps some pieces were : ordered and delivered together at the palace : at some point but that does not make it a : parure that was conceived as such by the : jeweller. : : The tiara and bracelet have a similar : central element, Yes. But that's about it. : The necklace does not match with the : patterns (motifs) and the settings used in : the tiara. The only match is the use of : round sapphires graduaded in shape in both : the tiara and necklace. Well..... : : The tiara was reset in the 1930's in : platinum so that explains the different use : of metal (no yellow gold) and setting to : some extend but not the use of different : motifs. To me it is clear these pieces were : never made as a parure. There's not a design : drawing of the parure in existence, only of : the tiara. : : The tiara was an existing design by Oscar : Masin, that we know and the central element : apparently was a brooch from Anna Pawlowna. : The brooch must have had some significance : because why else was it incorporated? It : must have been on someone's (King Willem : III?) specific orders. If you look closely : at the central element you will notice the : setting is completely different from the : rest of the tiara. Two existing pieces were : combined. : : Frankly, I do not understand why they : incorporated the brooch in the first place. : I think the central element with the odd : (oval) sized smaller sapphires bordering the : larger central rectangular sapphire does not : fit at all and interupts the beautiful : pattern of the tiara. The central : (rectangular) stone from the brooch or a : different larger stone could have made a : nicer centerpiece but in stead they pasted : the entire brooch onto the tiara. Very : strange. : : Subsequently they copied the motif of the : central element to a pair of bracelets which : again have a very different pattern to them: : pairs of two sapphires repeated across the : bracelets. Where does this come from? : : As for the large brooch? Again, completely : different piece all together. Clearly. The : only match is the use of Sapphires. : : It has never been established that all the : sapphires in the described jewels came from : Anna Pavlowna. The central element was : apparently a brooch from her and the large : oval sapphires from the brow brooch almost : certainly came from her collection. But the : sapphires from the tiara were described as : coming from Kashmere and the diamonds from : South Africa which makes it unlikely they : belonged to Queen Anna Pavlowna. : : Worn together as a parure, Yes. Made as a : Parure? No! : : It's quite a similar situation with the : House Diamond Parure which has three : completely different pieces from one : jeweller but it's clear they were never : designed as a truely matching parure as the : motifs do not match. : : And then look at the Mellerio Ruby Parure, : Peacock Tail Parure or Emerald Parure, those : three actually have pieces with matching : motifs and settings. : : : : : : --Previous Message-- : Queen Emma's saphire parure was a complete : order. Only the pendant with a central : saphire that has been worn on the necklace : was a seperate gift from Willem III to his : young bride. : The tiara, necklace, stomacher and bracelets : were ordered at the same time. The central : part of the tiara probably is an old brooch : of Queen Anna Pavlovna. The saphires for the : parure were the ones she left to her : youngest son Hendrik to be the main set of : his branch of the family. As neither of his : marriages produced any children the jewels : returned to the main branch of his brother : Willem III who ordered a new parure for his : second wife. Hendrik himself had a new : parure made a few years earlier when her : remarried the princess Marie of Prussia. : : --Previous Message-- : So I made a little cash-check, for an : overview. Not complete, I hope: : : Sets: : Denmark: Emerald Parure : Sweden Leuchtenberg : GB Turqouise Parure (Gloucester) : GB: Turqouise Parure (PMargret) : Germany Turqouise Parure of Sachsen-Coburg : Germany Württemberg Pink Topaz Parure : Germany Bavarian Ruby Parure (Spinell) of : Queen Therese now in the Residenz München : Italy/Savoy Pink Topaz Parure : Luxemburg Turquoise Parure : Netherlands Mellerio Ruby Parure : Netherlands Emerald Parure : Netherlands Peacock Ruby Parure : : For swedish Cameo Parure I´m not sure if it : was made as a set, neither for the : Netherland House Diamond Parure, which is : not not seen for decades, for the Norway : Emerald Parure and the Württemberg Ruby : Parure. : : For the status of the French Sapphire Parure : in the Louvre (Queen Amelie Sapphire Parure : and Queen Hortense Sapphire Parure) I need : the help of our french fellows. : : Netherlands Wedding gift Sapphire Parure : (current status: broken) : GB: Sapphire Parure now with Kent (current : status: broken. Tiara sold) : : Some often seen parures are 'composite' : parure: : Denmark Ruby parure : Greece Ruby Parure (composite, too, I think) : Greece Emerald Parure : GB Aquamarine : Netherlands Queen Emma Sapphire Parure : Spain Aquamarine Parure : : The british Kent Amethyst Parure is demi : parure. : : A remarkable surviving set is the Bagration : Spinell Parure of the Dukes of Westminster. : From time to time something pops up in a : auction, recently one or two sapphire : parures from Italy. I hope that something : sleeps in the Thurn und Taxis vaults. The : Prussian sapphire and ruby parures might be : gone, I guess. Did I mentioned the once so : beautiful Peridot Parure of Archduchess : Isabella, now torn apart? : : : --Previous Message-- : : --Previous Message-- : Are we talking about Parures which were : created as such or do we also count : composited parures. : : The Dutch Sapphire Parure was not created as : such but generally these jewels are : considered part of the parure: : : Tiara by Mellerio (design Oscar Masin) : Necklace (originally a dog collar) by : Mellerio - now converted to a tiara : Bracelets (pair) by Mellerio : Devant de Corsage (Bow Brooch) origin : unknown : : Some might consider Queen Emma's oval : diamond and sapphire pendant (one of the : first presents she received from King Willem : III) also part of the parure. : : * the small brooch worn by Queen Juliana on : her sash is not part of the parure. : : : : More here : : A good example of a complete parure is the : Dutch Ruby Parure created by Mellerio for : Queen Emma: : : Tiara : Necklace : Brooch : Devant de Corsage : Bracelet : Fan (added by Mellerio as a gift) : : : : More here : : --Previous Message-- : Sapphire Parure or Queen Emma's Grand Parure : in the netherlands : its a et of jewllery which has grown a : Parure : * Tiara The centre piece (brooch) is : detachable : * choker Necklace today its worn as a tiara : * 2 bracelets motifs can be worn as brooches : * devant de corsage : * pendent : * brooch : * bow brooch : : : : : --Previous Message-- : What parts are in the Parure and why is it : the : most complete, Give it a thought : : Does a tiara need to be in a Parure? : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
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