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Beautiful pink topaz necklace allegedly belonging to Tsarina Maria Feodrovna
Posted by Janet on May 22, 2020, 8:07 pm
I have never seen this necklace before but it was displayed at Tefaf Maastricht as "The enchanting necklace with Brazilian pear-shaped pink topaz and diamonds from Tsarina Maria Feodorovna wife of Alexander III from Russia. A design from Russian court jeweller Jean Francois Andre Duval."
I think that you will find that the necklace was associated with Maria Feodorovna, wife of Paul I, not the Marie Feodorovna wife of Alexander III.
Duval was an active jeweller in the late 18th and early 19th century, so the maker suggests the wife of Paul I.
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I have never seen this necklace before but it was displayed at Tefaf Maastricht as "The enchanting necklace with Brazilian pear-shaped pink topaz and diamonds from Tsarina Maria Feodorovna wife of Alexander III from Russia. A design from Russian court jeweller Jean Francois Andre Duval."
Ah, so that make sense! When I saw the pink topaz necklace the links between the large stones reminded me of the aquamarines of Queen Luise of Prussia. I´m in doubt if it ever has been a parure that belongs together - the remaining piece at the end of the nineteenth century are not of the same design. Anyway, the three stones of the remaining segment of the necklace (?) shows in the diamond framing similar fragile bow ornaments as the links of the pink topaz necklace. Queen Luise recieved a lot of expensive gifts from Alexander I. during the visit of the prussian royal couple in St.Petersburg. Amongst them where also jewellery. A necklace would be quite possible. https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/14192918_1913_17_117/72/ (Die Insignien und Juwelen der preußischen Krone, Tafel 15)
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I think that you will find that the necklace was associated with Maria Feodorovna, wife of Paul I, not the Marie Feodorovna wife of Alexander III.
Duval was an active jeweller in the late 18th and early 19th century, so the maker suggests the wife of Paul I.
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I have never seen this necklace before but it was displayed at Tefaf Maastricht as "The enchanting necklace with Brazilian pear-shaped pink topaz and diamonds from Tsarina Maria Feodorovna wife of Alexander III from Russia. A design from Russian court jeweller Jean Francois Andre Duval."
Thank you for clarifying, I wonder how it made its way from 19th century Russia to an exhibition in Maastricht in 2019.
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I think that you will find that the necklace was associated with Maria Feodorovna, wife of Paul I, not the Marie Feodorovna wife of Alexander III.
Duval was an active jeweller in the late 18th and early 19th century, so the maker suggests the wife of Paul I.
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I have never seen this necklace before but it was displayed at Tefaf Maastricht as "The enchanting necklace with Brazilian pear-shaped pink topaz and diamonds from Tsarina Maria Feodorovna wife of Alexander III from Russia. A design from Russian court jeweller Jean Francois Andre Duval."
on May 22, 2020, 8:07 pm
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