Field goes onto to note that he bought many pieces of sapphire jewellery for his wife from Cartier. Therefore it is possible that the original necklace may still exist..although the stones in the Sautoir look similar in shape. Also I am not sure that the second son of the King would have been able to purchase sautoir.
Mike
It may well be that the sapphires in the earrings came from the necklace given by Queen Mary to QEQM for her wedding.
But how to prove it?
If QEQM used stones from the necklace to make the earrings, which sapphires would have been used?
We know so little for certain about what happened to that necklace. The assumption is that HM used the diamonds and sapphires to make the sapphire sautoir but, as Franck once pointed out to me, Hugh Roberts does not say that QEQM used the necklace to make the sautoir.
320
Responses
« Back to index | View thread »