Re: Second appearance (on QEII) for QEQM's Aquamarine Art Deco Brooch Archived Message
Posted by Arthur on November 8, 2014, 4:37 am, in reply to "Re: Second appearance (on QEII) for QEQM's Aquamarine Art Deco Brooch"
Hello Nellie, do you mean that the brooch could be divided in two (like a pair of twin clips)? I do not think so. That would require not only to separate the two (hypothetical) halfs, but also to remove the central aquamarine. (source: From Her Majesty's Jewel Vault) And I have always seen this brooch worn as one single piece, and never as two separate pieces - even when it was worn by the Queen-Mother: (picture sources: The Times, The Daily Mail) Could it be worn as a clasp? (I suppose you mean on a bracelet or on a pearl necklace) That would require that little hoops are included in the metal frame at the back of the brooch, so as to connect it with the necklace or the bracelet. But I think this brooch would be too large to be used as a bracelet clasp, or as a choker clasp. It could theoretically be used as a clasp on a larger pearl necklace (like, for example, on the picture below of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas I). But this is only theory, as I have never seen the brooch being used this way. (A. Maliukov, Portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, 1836, Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg. Picture source: Wikipedia Commons)
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