Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings Archived Message
Posted by Arthur on November 27, 2014, 4:02 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings"
Hello Nellie, sorry, I had not in my memory that this "mystery" had already been solved! So, my "discovery" was not a scoop... Boffer was really the best! His contributions are much missed... I remain very sceptical about the matching with the pendants worn by the young Queen Mary on the black-and-white picture (B on your panel). In The Queen's Jewels (pages 118-119), Leslie Field identifies these pendants with the Duchess of Gloucester's pendant earrings (as they are named in Hugh Roberts' The Queen's Diamonds, pages 114-117) (A in your panel). This seems very plausible since, despite the bluriness of the picture, we can see a scrolling frame on the "B" pendants, which is the case of the "A" earrings, but not of the "C" earrings. Thanks to Roberts, we also know that the Duchess of Gloucester's earrings were originally mere pendants, which could be suspended to pearl and diamond tops (these tops, which are now worn on their own, are known in Field as 'the Duchess of Teck's earrings', and are the earrings worn by the Queen on her wedding day); two replacement brilliant tops were later added to the Duchess of Gloucester's pendants, so as to wear them as earrings, at some time between 1911 (date of a picture in Queen Mary's Jewel Inventory, showing the earrings with the original tops) and 1953 (when the earrings were bequeathed to the Queen, in their current form). But the picture of the young Queen Mary you have posted is very probably anterior to 1911, so at that time, the Duchess of Gloucester's "earrings" were only pendants, so that would make sense that Queen Mary wore them suspended on a chain. Of course, we know that Field's book contains here and there a few mistakes, but Hugh Roberts confirms this matching between A and B (though we can note that he does it by relying on Field... and that Roberts' book contains a few mistakes too!).
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Message Thread:
- Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Arthur November 26, 2014, 9:41 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Arthur November 26, 2014, 9:47 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Merlin November 26, 2014, 10:06 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Arthur November 26, 2014, 12:15 pm
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Merlin November 26, 2014, 1:21 pm
- New for Paris in the Spring etc. - Merlin November 26, 2014, 2:35 pm
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Arthur November 27, 2014, 5:07 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Merlin November 27, 2014, 5:43 am
- Re: Two fringes (ed) - Nellie November 27, 2014, 6:02 am
- Re: Two fringes - Arthur November 27, 2014, 6:48 am
- Oslo - Count75 November 27, 2014, 2:05 pm
- Re: Oslo - Nellie November 27, 2014, 5:08 pm
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Baxter November 27, 2014, 6:56 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - mauriz November 26, 2014, 10:20 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Lorenzo November 26, 2014, 10:47 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - Nellie November 26, 2014, 3:21 pm
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond/Emerald Pendant Earrings - jinja November 26, 2014, 10:16 pm
- Re: the brooch in detail - Nellie November 28, 2014, 10:10 pm
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