Re: Brooch from the French Crown jewels bought by the Louvre. Archived Message
Posted by Nellie  on March 19, 2015, 10:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Brooch from the French Crown jewels bought by the Louvre."
A beauitful brooch. I love pearl and diamond brooches that put it all together in abundance.
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: Wonderful, fantastic news!!! And even more
: fantastic, since this news was totally
: unexpected! I am all excited!
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: Here are more pictures published on the
: Facebook page of the Louvre Museum:
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: https://www.facebook.com/museedulouvre/posts/10152838121759926
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: By the way, we can notice that the Louvre
: has changed again the content of this ugly
: small gloomy display box, which does so
: little justice to the splendid jewels it
: contains: all the jewels we can see above
: were made for Empress Eugénie. They have
: removed the emerald tiara and the ruby
: bracelets of the Crown jewels, which had
: been made in the late 1810s-early 1820s for
: the Duchess of Angoulême...
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: : By the shape of the pearls, it looks like
: the
: brooch bought by the louvre is the top right
: one (from the original pic).
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: Jgppo, I think you are wrong. The pearl and
: diamond top cluster of the brooch bought by
: the Louvre Museum has eight diamonds
: surrounding the pearl, so this brooch must
: be one of the two brooches on the left of
: the picture posted by Nico (the two brooches
: on the right have ten diamonds around the
: top pearl). And judging from the respective
: proportions of the two pearl clusters and of
: the drop pearls, I would say the brooch
: bought by the Louvre is the top left one.
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: : Bulgaria --interesting provenance. Do we
: know
: of any occasions when this piece adorned a
: Bulgarian princess or queen?
:
: Unfortunately, I have found no picture of
: any Bulgarian Queen or Princess wearing this
: brooch.
:
: We know that Ferdinand I, King of the
: Bulgarians from 1887 to 1918, had collected
: several French royal heirlooms, probably as
: a sign of pride of his French descent (his
: mother, Clementine of Orleans, Duchess
: August of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha, was one of
: the daughters of Louis-Philippe, King of the
: French from 1830 to 1848). For instance, he
: had bought several parts of the ruins of the
: Château de Saint-Cloud (one of the main
: royal/imperial residences in the Paris
: suburbs, which had burnt in 1870), and had
: them integrated in his castle of Euxinograd.
: He also acquired the pair of earrings of the
: sapphire parure of the French Crown Jewels,
: which had been bought by Bapst (the former
: French Crown jeweller) at the auction of the
: Crown Jewels by the French republican
: government in 1887. Later, these earrings
: were given by King Ferdinand to Isabelle of
: Orleans-Braganza, Countess of Paris
: (1911-2003), wife of the French pretender to
: the throne, Henri "VI" of Orleans,
: Count of Paris (thus giving "back"
: these Crown earrings to the " de jure
: " Queen of France... a very noble
: gesture from King Ferdinand...). These
: earrings are now worn by Philomena, Duchess
: of Vendôme (the wife of the current
: "Dauphin").
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: One of the four brooches of the pearl parure
: of the French Crown jewels was also bought
: in 1887 by Bapst, like the sapphire
: earrings. So we can suppose it is this
: brooch which is now in the Louvre's
: collection.
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