Die Exkaiserin Eugenie von Frankreich, Patin der Königin von Spanien schenkte der Braut, einen aus zwei Brillantflügeln bestehenden Haarschmuck.
Die großen Merkur-Flügel, wie vom Götterboten, waren damals sehr in Mode und wurden von CHAUMET in Paris gefertigt.
Chaumet hatte eine grosse Auswahl an solchen Flügelschwingen, in verschiedenen Ausführungen. Kleine, Schmale, nach oben gebogen auslaufend, gerade oder wie diese, sehr gross und üppig mit fast 12 Federspitzen ganz mit Diamanten besetzt.
Sie sind auch als Broschen oder als Schmuck im Haar zu tragen, siehe oben im Bild.
Flügel beziehen sich auf Vögel und Engel und auf den Platz zwischen Himmel und Erde, wo sie als Boten zwischen den beiden zirkulieren.
Zur gleichen Zeit war die Oper Walküre von Richard Wagner ein enormer Erfolg und eine Wagnermania folgte, mit Schmuck der geflügelten Helme von Siegried und Brunnhilde.
A magnificent Ornament. The Empress Eugenie, after whom the bride was named, and whose great favourite she has always been, selected a most uncommon and beautiful wedding gift. It was an ornament for the hair, consisting of a pair of
outstretched swallow wings. Comparisons are notoriously odious in the case of the value of gifts, but there can be no impropriety in saying that very few of the offerings on view to-day could have surpassed, or even approached in
intrinsic value, this magnificent ornament. The wings approached very nearly in size the normal wing of the swallow and were composed of very fine diamonds.
A hair ornament in the form of two large wings composed of diamonds, was the wedding gift from the Empress Eugenie of France, the godmother of the future Queen of Spain.
The large mercury wings are very much in fashion and made by
CHAUMET, Paris to be worn as brooches or as ornament in the hair.
It was displayed with the box as seen above.
Wings refer to birds and angels and to the place between heaven and earth where the two circulate as messengers. In the same time the opera Walküre by Richard Wagner was an enormous success and a Wagnermania followed, with jewellery
of the winged helmets of Siegfried and Brunhilde.
In the picture above Queen Victoria Eugenie is wearing her first version of 30 diamond collets as riviere, a wedding present of her husband King Alfonso of Spain.
According to Ansorena, the Court Jeweller, Queen Victoria Eugenia received two new diamonds each year, 7 carats each, that were added to the original chocker of 30 large diamonds.
During the exile Queen Victoria Eugenia divided the very long sautoir into two shorter necklaces. In her last will she left the longest one to her son Juan, Count of Barcelona to be passed to her grandson Juan Carlos.
The other collet
diamond necklace was left to her son D. Jaime, Duke of Segovia and was sold by his widow, Charlotte Tiedemann along with some other pieces and jewels formerly in the collection of Queen Ena.
Sources: The Times; Graphic; Berliner Sonntagszeitung;
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