
Showing posts with label tiara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tiara. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Braganca Tiara
Tiara made of arabesques, leaves and flowers, covered with hundreds of diamonds and mounted in gold and silver. The tiara is 12.5 cm high and 50 cm long. It was altered by Empress Amelie and first arrived in Stockholm after Amelie's death in 1873 and its altered.
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Braganca Tiara,
diadem,
jewelry,
swedish jewels,
tiara
Queen Josephine's Amethyst Tiara
This set of amethysts was originally owned by Napoleon’s first wife, Empress Joséphine. She left it to her son, Eugène de Beauharnais, whose daughter, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, became queen of Sweden. The younger Josephine brought a treasure trove of her grandmother’s jewels with her to Sweden, including these amethysts tiara.
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diadem,
jewelry,
Queen Josephine's Amethyst Tiara,
swedish jewels,
tiara
The Nine Prong Tiara
This impressive tiara is originally Queen Sophie's Diamond Tiara but it's also known as Nine-Ponge Diamond Tiara. It was made for the wife of Swedish King Oscar II. King's wife Queen Sophie was a very influential figure and also called "Sweish Queen Victoria."This diamond tiara mounted in gold and silver from the middle of the 18th century.
Connaught Tiara
This tiara was brought into Sweden by Princess Margaret of Connaught when she married the future King Gustav Adolf in 1905. It was a wedding present from her parents. It's a diamond-set tiara in the form of loops of forget-me-not flowers secured by bows, from which hang diamond drops. It was made by E. Wolff & Co. and probably supplied by Garrard. Forget-me-nots stand for true love in the language of flowers. The tiara consists of five 5 looping swags of forget-me-not flowers and leaves, each with a detachable hanging pendant, all of which are separated by upright diamond springs on wire springs.The tiara was eventually given to her eldest son Edmund who gave it to his bride Sybilla as a wedding gift. Sybilla it to her son, King Carl Gustav. His wife, Queen Sylvia, now wears it frequently.
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Connaught tiara,
diadem,
jewelry,
swedish jewels,
tiara
Empress Josephine's Cameo Tiara
The color of this historical bridal tiara is very special; it's white: it consists of pearls, heightened with 7 cameo's who depict mythological figures. In the centre there's the crowning of love (mother and child), to where portrait-cameos of a man and a woman aim their sight. On the backside portrait-cameo's are interchanged with a godess who has a putti on her lap (caretaker) and a man with a staff (guard). It was originally owned by Empress Josephine of France and passed into the Swedish royal family via her granddaughter Queen Josephine, born princess of Leuchtenberg.
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diadem,
Empress Josephine's Cameo Tiara,
jewelry,
swedish jewels,
tiara
Crown Princess Margaret's Ruby Tiara

This tiara was a wedding gift to Margaret from her uncle King Edward VI. It's is in the form of graduated heart-shaped elements.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Button Tiaras

The buttons of the two different tiaras, 4 button and 6 button, are not identical. The ones from the four-button-tiara look more like sunburst or star-design, while the ones from the six-button-tiara realy look like flowers with small leafesIt was sayed, that the buttons were the property of Carl XIV Johan. They are supposed to be a part of his gala uniform, perhaps from his days as french marshall. After that he had them placed on the king´s crown for hos coronation 1818, but they were later removed and made into tiaras. But, it could be older items and also used of Marshall Bernadotte, earlier the famous and amazing stomacher and brest decoration and hair jewels of the Queen Luisa-Ulrika.
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crown princess victoria,
six button tiara,
tiara,
tiaras
Cut-Steel Tiara

Cut-steel tiara: A tiara of highly polished cut-steel set with gold in the designsof oak leaves, acorns, flowers and feathers. Queen Josephine
may have brought it to Sweden, where it languished for many
years until rediscovered by Queen Silvia. For a period of time
cut-steel was a cheap alternative for women who wished to be
stylish but could not afford the real thing during the time
of the first French empire on to the Victorian era.
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crown princess victoria,
cut-steel tiara,
tiara,
tiaras
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