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Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy Archived Message Posted by mauriz on July 29, 2018, 8:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy" Munn's description of the tiara as "a circlet in eighteenth-century French taste" left me baffled, as I can't see anything even remotely reminiscent of that! In contrary, in my perception the tiara is a surprisingly late example of these eclectic late-nineteenth-century jewels which are not only somewhat out of proportion but also decidedly undecisive in style. It's this lack of a distinctive style in combination with a misguided longing for grandeur which makes it in retrospect so utterly understandable that after 1900 jewellers and artists were working so hard to overcome this period's lapses of taste. And frankly, I'd never linked such an inferior design as late as 1913 to Cartier! Message Thread: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy - Beth July 28, 2018, 5:08 pm Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy - LauraM July 29, 2018, 5:51 am Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy - Beth July 29, 2018, 7:51 am Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy - mauriz July 29, 2018, 8:42 pm Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy - mauriz July 29, 2018, 8:39 pm Re: Nancy Astor's tiara with the Sancy - MarcA July 30, 2018, 10:57 am   Searching