An important brooch in gold with a blister pearl and diamonds, C.E. Bolin, St Petersburg 1860-1875
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Workmaster Robert Schwan, a centered pearl elegantly encircled by old-cut and rose-cut diamonds, total weight ca 2.00 cts, dimensions 35 X 20 mm, total weight 13 g. Struck with workmaster's initials RS, 56 standard.
Provenance
W.A. Bolin collection
Exhibitions
W.A. Bolin 200 years, "Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra", Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 202.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow, 2001 'W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries', catalogue no 85, p. 159.
More information
In the mid-1840s, one of Bolins and the world's most famous tiaras was crafted under the supervision of master craftsman Robert Schwan, known as the Vladimir Tiara. The tiara is now owned by the British royal family and was frequently worn by Queen Elizabeth II. It was commissioned in 1843 as a gift for the future Empress Maria Alexandrovna who later bequeathed it to her son Grand Duke Vladimir, whose wife Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna often wore the beautiful tiara. Please examine the beautiful openwork backside of the brooch. The brooch is nearly as beautiful from the back as from the front.
