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Astor provenance
Edited by Vincent on April 3, 2020, 5:38 pm
The news paper article detailing a precise list of Mrs Astor’s jewels with their valuation seems a good piece of evidence to me. These things are much more public in the USA than they are in Europe. And the list mentions the Provenance : Crown Jewels. It corroborates the pedigree mentioned by both Sotheby’s and christie’s when they sold the brooch. Incidentally, I don’t think the researchers working for those two houses would have mentioned the Astor provenance without évidences given to them by the seller. Now, that a copy of that brooch could have been created in 1902, 7 years before the Astor inventory was made public, is not a big surprise. Many copies of those jewels were created. The saphire parure necklace and tiara were copied by Boucheron. Actually I think the tiara was copied twice. There was also a copy of the necklace and bracelets from the ruby parure which was sold at auctions a few years ago. One lady who was the owner of the ruby and diamond big necklace ( there were two) even ordered a pair of earrings in “the same style) at Van Cleef & Arpels to wear them with the necklace. It is highly possible that a copy of the bow brooch was created at one point. That piece was a wonder but it did not used any big stone, so if could be copied easily. So I guess we have to stick with Astor provenance.
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