French turquoises for December Archived Message
Posted by Arthur on November 30, 2015, 6:06 pm, in reply to "Turquoise tanzanite zircon are listed for December"
The French Crown Jewels' collection included a beautiful turquoise and diamond parure made by Evrard Bapst and Frédéric Bapst in 1819-1820 for the Duchess of Angoulême. The parure included a tiara, a coronet, a comb, a necklace, a pair of bracelets and a pair of earrings, totalising 215 turquoises and 3.302 diamonds. The parure remained unaltered until the sale of the Crown Jewels in 1887. Its current whereabouts are unknown - as far as I know, no piece of this parure was ever seen in an auction, or in a museum, or worn by a lady... (pictures from Lorenzo's website) This turquoise, pearl and enamel parure was made by Bapst in 1864 for Isabelle, (1st) Countess of Paris: (picture from Lorenzo's website) The Princess of Joinville (née Francisca of Brazil, daughter-in-law of King Louis-Philippe) owned this turquoise and diamond parure (sorry, I don't remember who posted these pictures first): The small bow brooch on the picture above appeared on 11 December, 2012, at an auction by Sotheby's: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/the-jewellery-collection-of-the-late-michael-wellby-an-eclectic-eye-jewels-spanning-four-centuries/lot.140.html Isabelle, (2nd) Countess of Paris (1911-2003), owned a lovely pair of turquoise and diamond brooches, which were a wedding gift from one of her maternal aunts, on the Dobrzensky side of the family. These brooches were auctioned off by the Countess' heirs at Christie's in 2008: The Countess actually wore this pair of brooches quite rarely: The Countess of Paris also owned a pair of turquoise, pearl and gold bracelets, bearing the portraits of King Louis-Philippe and his wife Queen Marie-Amélie. These bracelets were also auctioned off by the Orleans family in 2008. The auction catalogue mentioned that the bracelets formerly belonged to Queen Amelia of Portugal:
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- Re: Turquoise tanzanite zircon are listed for December - Nellie November 30, 2015, 6:37 am
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