Appolo gallery reopened to public Archived Message
Posted by Lorenzo  on July 15, 2015, 4:51 am, in reply to "Re: Lovely Banner, Arthur!"
it seems all the jewels are displayed as before !!!
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: Thank you all for your kind comments!
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: The pearl and diamond tiara of Empress
: Eugénie is displayed in the Louvre Museum,
: but it would need a good cleaning to display
: its full sparkle capacity!
: See
: http://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/1430001560.html
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: The sapphire and diamond tiara was made for
: Queen Marie-Amélie, wife of King
: Louis-Philippe, with stones bought by
: Louis-Philippe from Empress Joséphine's
: children. It was never part of the Crown
: jewels, but was a privately-owned jewel. The
: tiara (along with the rest of the parure)
: remained in the Orléans family until 1985,
: when the late Count of Paris sold the parure
: to the Louvre. It was displayed, a few years
: ago, in the Apollo's Gallery of the Museum,
: but is now not displayed anymore -
: unfortunately!
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: The ruby and diamond tiara was part of a
: parure belonging to the Crown Jewels
: collection, made for the Duchess of
: Angoulême, niece of Kings Louis XVIII and
: Charles X, and de facto "First
: Lady" of France from 1814 to 1830. The
: parure was unaltered by Queen Marie-Amélie
: (who never wore the Crown Jewels) and by
: Empress Eugénie, and was finally sold by the
: republican government in 1887. The ruby
: tiara was later in the collection of
: Cornelia, Countess of Craven, and was sold
: at auction again after her death, in 1961.
: Its later whereabouts are unknown - though I
: have often read that the tiara could be in
: the Niarchos family, but I have never seen
: pictures or other pieces of information
: which could confirm this speculation.
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