Posted by Deedle on March 2, 2015, 9:03 am, in reply to "Stomacher"
--Previous Message-- : RCIN 402938 : : This is possibly the best view of the : diamond stomacher : : :Wonderful picture, Nellie, Thank you. I now wonder, even allowing for artistic interpretation, whether we are looking at a completely different bodice ornament in your second picture here http://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/1425119024.html Could pearls be incorporated in this one do you think? If so I think there may be pictures of Queen Adelaide and a young Queen Victoria wearing bits of it. This contemporary description of Queen Charlottes main stomacher would seem to confirm that it is the one in the Zoffany portrait 'The Fond (ground) is a Network as fine as Cat Gut of Small Diamonds and the rest is a large pattern of Natural Flowers, composed of very large Diamonds, one of which is 18, another 16 and a third 10 Thousand pounds price.' (sorry I can't remember where I noted it from).