Re: Dona Isabel family heritage earrings and some more Archived Message
Posted by karenl  on July 16, 2014, 11:43 pm, in reply to "Dona Isabel family heritage earrings and some more"
Thank you Jorge and Cristina, you both have absolutely thrilled me with this extensive collection of stunning earrings. I agree the topaz and the citrine earrings are gorgeous.
--Previous Message--
: Jorge, thank you, how wonderful you took the
: time to order the earrings we have been
: posting here and make this display of the
: Braganza earrings!
: Wow, its fabulous the amount of beautiful
: pieces that Dona Isabel has at her disposal.
: And her collection keeps growing .
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: Here are some more: (the pictures are
: scanned from Caras and Flash magazines, they
: are obviously not as clear or large as I
: would want them to be...)
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: 23. Unknown long diamond earrings
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: Dona Isabel wore these ones once, to my
: knowledge, to a gala at Ajuda Palace in
: December 1995, she was expecting Prince
: Afonso.
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: 24. Yellow gold and cabochon amethyst
: earrings
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: From the set that the Duchess shared with
: her mother. Worn in 1997.
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: 25. Diamond chandelear earrings
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: Rarely worn by Dona Isabel. Here worn at a
: party in 2007.
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: 26. Silver and moonstone(?)/ milky
: quartz(?) modern earrings.
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: 27. Diamond and citrine earrings
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: Worn at the Jantar dos Conjurados 2009 and
: at Dona Isabel anniversary party in 2011.
: Really pretty, hope she wears them more
: often!
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: As to pic number 8 (round emerald earrings)
: I am still not convinced that the ones in
: the second pic are the larger round ones in
: the first pic. In the second pic the
: earrings she is wearing look longer and seem
: to have 2(?) aligned emeralds. Well, I'll
: just have to wait until Dona Isabel wears
: them again and hope for a clear bigger
: pic...
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: As to pic number 15 (Long floral diamond
: earrings), acording to an article in Caras
: magazine in 1996, they belonged to Dona
: Isabel's maternal grandmother Dona Beatriz
: da Graça Fernandes Pinheiro de Castro
: Curvelo (1900-1980). One of the first pics I
: have of Dona Isabel wearing these earrings
: was at a ball in late summer 1996 (from
: Caras magazine). I will have to dig in my
: older archives to see if I can find any pic
: of the Duchess wearing them in the early
: months of her wedding. Note how the earrings
: seem "dirty" in this picture, like
: ancient jewels get after been in vaults too
: long, and in need of a good cleaning. It
: seems this was certainly one of the first
: times they were worn in sometime.
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: They certainly have been a favourite piece
: of Dona Isabel over the years. My guess is
: that these family heritage earrings were a
: wedding gift from her family, namely her
: mother (most likely hypothesis).
: Another hypothesis is that they were a
: family gift to celebrate the birth of the
: Prince of Beira (and perhaps thats why the
: earliest pics I found are from mid 1996
: onward).
:
: As to number 16 I totally agree with you,
: they seem like the lower part of the diamond
: floral heritage earrings, I thought of that
: when I first spotted them at the Monaco
: wedding.
: The design matches perfectly, Dona Isabel
: could have asked her jeweler to make them
: into convertible earrings, with a long and a
: short version. They look articulated enough.
: But again, as always, we need reliable
: sources. Perhaps one day Dona Isabel gives
: an interview on these earrings.
:
: As to number 21 (the Topaz earrings) Dona
: Isabel has them at least since 2009. She
: wore them to the ceremony of her aceptance
: to become patron for the Association for
: Hemophilia and Blood diseases. These topaz
: are gorgeous!!
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: --Previous Message--
: We already saw many of the unknown jewels
: from
: the Braganza vaults: tiaras, necklaces,
: rings, brooches and some bracelets. However,
: no jewels collection is truly complete
: without earrings. And that is what I’m going
: to present to you: the Braganza earrings
: collection.
:
: Some of them were already referred in
: previous threads and some were never
: properly presented. I’m opting for showing
: all that I know to keep this thread as
: complete as possible. Hope you enjoy.
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: Pearls
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: 1.Cluster of pearls and diamonds
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: 2.Pearl and diamond Buttons
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: 3.(Long) Black pearl and diamond earrings
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: This is the best image I have of these
: earrings and I’m not sure if they contain,
: in fact, diamonds or if the black bead is a
: pearl.
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: 4. Pearl Studs
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: The lady in the image is Infanta D.Filipa,
: aunt of D.Duarte (sister of his father).
: D.Filipa never married and left to D.Duarte
: some belongings like an amazing mansion in
: Algarve and the famous brooch that D.Isabel
: uses so much. As a curiosity I must say that
: the Mansion nowadays is used as a summer
: residence of the Portuguese Royal Family.
: When the Royal Family is not in the
: property, the house is available for rent (
: Link ).
: As far as I know D.Isabel never used these
: earrings but with so many valuable things
: that the Infanta left to her nephew is not
: strange to believe that these earrings were
: also part of the inheritance.
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: 5. Pre-wedding Gala demi-parure earrings
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: As we already discussed earlier, they appear
: to be made of silver, diamonds and pearls.
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: 6.Maria Francisca Modern demi-parure
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: This demi-parure was a present from D.Duarte
: to D.Isabel to celebrate the birth of their
: daughter, Infanta D.Maria Francisca. Small
: pearls probably set in silver.
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: Emeralds
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: 7. D.Maria Francisca emerald and diamond
: earrings
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: These are the oldest known emerald earrings
: present in the Braganza collection. The late
: Duchess wore them very frequently. I think
: that D.Isabel used these earrings once but
: unfortunately I lost, many years ago, the
: picture so I do not have how to be sure.
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: 8. Small emerald earrings
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: Aquamarines
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: 9. Ladies of Rio aquamarine demi-parure
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: This set was a wedding gift to D.Maria
: Francisca from the Ladies of Rio’s carioca
: Society.
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: Multiple Stones
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: 10. Multiple stones earrings
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: Gold
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: 11. Daily earrings
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: Used in informal events, they are,
: apparently, made with white and yellow gold.
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: 12. Indian set
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: This set, comprising necklace and matching
: earrings, both made of solid gold, was a
: present from D.Duarte to his wife. The set
: was bought in a trip the Duke made to India,
: hence the name.
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: 13. Brincos à Rainha (Queen’s style
: earrings)
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: These kind of earrings belong to the
: category of traditional Portuguese
: jewellery. They are made of solid gold
: filigree.
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: 14. Gold earrings
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: I only saw these earrings once. What do you
: think: are they the same as the earrings in
: 10 or are a different pair?
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: Diamonds
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: 15. Long Floral diamond earrings
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: These earrings are very used by D.Isabel
: and, for that reason, are some of the best
: known diamond earrings in her collection.
: They were maybe a wedding present (once
: again: who knows?).
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: 16. Short Floral diamond earrings
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: This number 16 is quite tricky: are these
: earrings the short version (the bottom) of
: the earrings of the number 15 or a
: completely different pair? I already thought
: both things and today I’m not sure what to
: think about. What do you think?
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: 17. Wedding earrings
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: 18. King Hassan II set
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: This set, comprising a necklace and matching
: earrings, was one of the wedding presents
: that King Hassan II of Morocco’s gave to
: D.Duarte and D.Isabel.
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: 19. Long vegetalist diamond earrings
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: These earrings are used very often by
: D.Isabel. I never saw a picture of her
: mother-in-law with them.
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: 20. Luxembourg diamond earrings
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: These earrings were used for the first time
: at the pre-wedding gala of the Hereditary
: Grand Duke of Luxembourg, hence the name.
: They are, apparently, made with large
: diamond drops suspended from an all diamond
: structure.
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: Other earrings
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: 21. Topaz (?) drop earrings
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: These earrings were used for the first time
: (as far as I know) at the traditional Jantar
: de Reis (Kings Dinner) at the Portuguese
: city of Braga (January 2014).
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: 22. Cachabon green stone earrings
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: These earrings were used more often in the
: earlier years of marriage. Not sure what
: stone it may be.
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: And that’s all I got about the Braganza
: earrings. Did I forgot something?
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