Queen Mary’s Chain-Link Bracelets are “two flexible bracelets, the rectangular pavé-set chain links with channel-set baguettes, one bracelet with three buckle-shaped panels, each mounted with a brilliant in rub-over setting, the other of very similar design, set with two brilliant collets and a central brooch element (originally detachable), mounted with a large brilliant; with snap [read more]
Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara is “set with brilliant- and rose-cut diamonds, mainly in cut-down silver-backed settings, and 19 pendant baroque pearls.” The design of Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara was based on a tiara that belonged to Queen Mary’s grandmother, Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Cambridge. The latter tiara was later left to Mary’s [read more]
Queen Mary’s Sautoir consists of “37 graduated cushion-cut brilliants in rub-over and pierced collet settings, each separated by three small brilliants, similarly set. The sautoir unfastens to form two necklaces, one of 19 and one of ten large stones, and two bracelets, each of four large stones.” The sautoir was made in 1928 from a [read more]
The Delhi Durbar Necklace and Cullinan VII Pendant is a “set with eight cabochon emeralds, three cushion-shaped, four oval and one lozenge-shaped, in cut-down gold and pave-set diamond collets, between six large brilliants in platinum claw settings, on a double platinum chain set with 94 small brilliants, the central emerald suspending a pave-set pear-shaped emerald [read more]
The Cullinan VI and VIII Brooch consists of a “marquise pendant (Cullinan VI), suspended from an emerald-cut stone (Cullinan VIII), set on a fine radiating platinum web in symmetrically scrolling and foliate millegrain and pavé-set brilliant border.” Embed from Getty Images The Cullinan VI diamond was purchased in 1908 from the diamond cutter Asscher by [read more]
The Vladimir Tiara is described as follows, “The intersecting brilliant-set circles of the frame are hung with 15 large claw-set pendant pearls, which can be replaced with emerald drops.” Embed from Getty Images The tiara was created for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (born Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), probably around the time of her marriage to Grand [read more]
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