At present I cannot see the "stories" attached to Instagram posts, so I don't know what the gallery said.
The photo of the collier resille from the Cartier archives was posted on RJWMB in 2015 after Franck alerted us to an article by Christophe Vachaudez on Cartier and the British royal family.
Franck's original post. https://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/archive/1446253218.html
Some time later posters on RJWMB had a discussion on the collier, See https://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/archive/1446846556.html where posters endeavoured to work out which Cartier collier was in the famous painting of Queen Alexandra by Francois Fleming, and Dmitry posted a link to the painting owned by Princess Olga Romanof https://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/archive/1447251641.html
There are numerous photos of the painting of Empress Marie and Queen Alexandra on the net. For example see these articles (there are too many to list here) https://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/fancy-a-peek-inside-a-45995/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/princess-olga-romanoffs-struggle-to-do-up-her-700-year-old-kent-pile-k97833rtw
Whether the painting and the archival photo show the same jewel is something I cannot decide upon. For me the problem is that the painting gives an impression of a choker which spreads onto the upper chest. The painting suggests rubies and emeralds, but crucially it also suggests that there is a different central element in the bottom half of the necklace.
It is possible that Queen Alexandra attached a separate brooch to the front of the necklace. How I would love to know!
We know that the Cartier collier resille with the emeralds and ruby drops was the one worn by Queen Mary without any coloured gemstone drops
Queen Mary 1926
Queen Mary 80th birthday portrait
and, of course, by Queen Alexandra as seen in the photos taken after the wedding of her granddaughter, Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, Princess Arthur of Connaught.
Alexandra 1913
Obviously the ruby and emerald drops in the Cartier collier resille were detachable as seen in the 1913 photos where Queen Alexandra wears the necklace in an all diamond version with what looks like a large pear shaped pearl.
One possibility which crossed my mind in relation to the painting (of the Empress and Queen Alexandra) is if Queen Alexandra was wearing below a diamond choker the 1901 Cartier necklace. It is the first described in Franck's list here https://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/archive/1446253218.html
But, if that were so, then I would expect to see more emeralds in the painting.
I admit I am confused!
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