Jewellery, Objects of Vertu, Silver and Watches

Royal Interest: A signed black and white portrait photograph of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900 - 2002), the portrait by Anthony Buckley, signed ‘Elizabeth R’ to the lower mount, the reverse stamped ‘Anthony Buckley Photograph’ and numbered in pencil ‘4733-19’, in a dark blue leather easel back frame bearing gilt Royal monogram ‘ER’ to the top, by H.H. Plante, dimensions 32 x 22.5cm. £300-£400

Presented to Group Captain B.A. Primavesi CVO, and thence by descent.

This official portrait was photographed by Anthony Buckley in February 1963. (See National Portrait Gallery primary collection, NPG x76302, for another portrait from the same sitting).

HRH Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother wears the Greville tiara, made by Boucheron, two diamond rivière necklaces and a blue sash supporting the badge and star of the Order of the Garter, together with the family orders of Kings George V and George VI.

She also wears a pair of diamond drop earrings - the pear-shaped diamond drops had been taken from the Timur ruby necklace which came from the Treasury of Lahore and was presented to Queen Victoria by the Hon. East India Company in 1851.
On her wrist sits Queen Victoria’s wide diamond cuff bracelet, which she chose from the Royal Collection when she inspected it with Queen Mary in 1936, following the accession of George VI. Also selected at this time was the diamond fringe brooch, known as the Tassel or Waterfall brooch, made by Garrard in 1856 for Queen Victoria, also worn in this portrait. Queen Victoria left the brooch to Edward VII, whose wife Queen Alexandra often wore it. The Queen Mother wore the brooch to the coronation of her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.