Mit einem Totalerlöse von 3 470 000 Francs endete die spektakuläre
Versteigerung in Lausanne, der in Vevey verstorbenen Prinzessin Vera
Lobanow de Rostow, geborene Prinzessin Dolgorouky.
In seinen Memoiren, schreibt Fürst Felix später über diese Juwelen
als ....eines schöner als das andere.....ein Triumph für Chaumet
und seinen bezaubernden und originellen Schöpfungen
Broche ovale, émeraude cabochon, entourage
grecque, roses et huit brillants.
Broche Régence, formée d'un noeud brillants
et roses, d'une chaine roses et d'une grande émeraude dans
un ovale pavé brillants.
Broche ovale, une émeraude rectangulaire,
feuilles en roses, chatons boules brillants.
Broche, charmante émeraude cabochon, entourage
brillants, cadre églantines et bords roses.
Broche, fleur de lis, trois émeraudes cabochons,
brillants et quelques roses. 6. Montre, pavée brillants,
centre émeraude cabochon.
Broche, émeraude cabochon ovale, monture culots
feuilles d'acanthe et cadre brillants soutenant une pendeloque émeraude
cabochon poire, entourage brillants. Christies 1974
Épingle, caducée roses, émeraude
cabochon forme poire.
Paire de boucles d'oreilles, émeraude cabochon,
double entourage de brillants.
Broche, émeraude cabochon trés haute,
entourée de douze brillants
Petite broche, intaille émeraude, sujet mythologique.
Glace à main, or, portant une couronne de
Princesse, entièrement orné de brillants à
la face et au dos.
Pendant Louis XV, grande aigue-marine entouré
de huit brillants, festons, bélière navette.
Grand pendant, camée, émeraude gravée
en haut relief entourée de roses.
Pendant carré, très grande aigue-marine.
Broche, rosace brillants, centre émeraude,
gravure orientale.
Broche aigue-marine, six pans, entourages grecque,
roses
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Princess Lobanov Rostovsky
Princess Vera Nikolajewna Lobanov Rostovsky (1836-1914). Born Schablickine,
she married the prince Jacques Lobanoff de Rostoff in 1858 at Saint
Petersburg. The prince and princess were among the first of what was
to become the Russian colony in Cannes, living at Villa Tropicale,
Allée des Bleuets, from 1903 to 1914.
Princess was married, at the age of 16, to the younger brother of
prince Alexis Borisovitch Lobanoff de Rostoff, ambassador of Russia
to the courts of Vienna, London and the Sublime Door, and later Russian
foreign minister.
Princess Vera was herself a princess Dolgorouky, from the Rurik dynasty
the first member of which was grand-duke lvan of Russia, who lived
in the 800s, and the last of which was Ivan IV, known as Ivan the
Terrible, Czar of all Russias.
Princess Vera's mother was a Chatilow, belonging to an ancient family
of the nobility of the government of Toula. Known as the "Violet
of Pétersbourg", her beauty was legendary.
Vera Lobanoff de Rostoff, became a widow at a very young age, and
was left with a great fortune. Being a woman of independent means
allowed her to pursue her passion for the arts.
She lived in a beautiful palace in Moscow, surrounded by a vast park.
In this residence, which she liked to call "her small Hermitage",
she accumulated a large collection of beautiful and interesting things
imported from all over the world. She also possessed an important
gallery of family portraits. Her house was a model of Slavic elegance
and refined luxury.
She also developed a passion for the beautiful jewellery; which she
purchased with great enjoyment, everywhere she went. To those who
were astonished by her purchases, she answered: "They are wise
investments; I am not squandering anything; on the contrary, I am
building a second fortune from the first one".
Special thanks for translation to Robert!
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