Re: Aquamarine tiara worn by Countess of Wessex Archived Message
Posted by Baxter on October 21, 2012, 4:50 pm, in reply to "Aquamarine tiara worn by Countess of Wessex"
I unsuccessfully attempted to state my theory in the thread below, so this time I am including illustrations. I think it is entirely possible that the information from the Royal Collection which I will post again is correct: In 1971 the tiara was adapted to take four scroll ornaments from an aquamarine and diamond jewel given to The Queen by the Governor of São Paulo in 1968. This does not state that the jewel was dismantled, only that four pieces from it were used. What remained could be what we are now seeing. As I said below, instead of the five motifs we saw on Sophie (which of course is the same worn by the Queen in 1970), the original gift could have been composed of nine motifs as shown here: For whatever reason (perhaps the V-shape made it unwearable) the Queen decided to shorten it and wore it that way two years after receiving it. The pieces removed were then remade into the ornaments presently seen on the 'Byzantine Cathedral.' (While I do love that name, Boris, if comparing to a piece of architecture I think it would be more of a folly.) Another issue I have is with the motif in the photo above being described as a scroll. A scroll design always contains one or more spirals often in a convoluted form. Here is a beautiful example from Christies: The motif in the Queen's tiara is a fan or shell shape with a scalloped edge. Nothing about it says 'scroll' to me. However, the stones in the tiara worn by Sophie could be indeed be described as having a scroll setting, as Boris in fact does in a post above. That is possibly why the Royal Collection states that four 'scroll ornaments' were used in the redesigned tiara.
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