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johnsimon · 4 years

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Elisabeth Muhr, Denise Rich, and Jean Shafiroff chaired the 65th Viennese Opera Ball on Friday, February 7, 2020, at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York City, under the patronage of The President of the Republic of Austria, H.E. Alexander Van der Bellen. Actor Nathan Lee Graham emceed the Ball, celebrating the cultural and economic relationships between Austria and America, connecting two continents, two cities and two centuries in one glamorous evening.

“There is nothing like this in America with pageantry that could only come from the Habsburg Royal Houses” said President and Executive Director Silvia Frieser, “Just as in Europe, the celebration began with our Debutantes, wearing beautiful tiaras donated by Austrian jewelry company Ciro and white gowns, dancing the Polonaise and Alles Walzer with their partners in white tie.” Artistic Director Daniel Serafin presented an operatic concert with Ewa Płonka, Limmie Pulliam, Michael Spyres and Corinne Winters performing alongside a full orchestra conducted by Matthias Fletzberger. At Midnight, a Quadrille that enlivened the dance floor until 4am.

The Viennese Opera Ball proudly supports charitable projects of New York and Vienna. This year, appropriately benefiting the musical therapy program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center through Denise Rich’s Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research. While the Viennese Opera Ball is inspired by the famous Vienna Opera Ball in Austria, it is older and it’s own American 501 (c)(3) not for profit foundation, held under the auspices of the U.S. Austrian Chamber of Commerce.

The Honorary Gala Chair was The Honorable Michael Ludwig, Governor, and Mayor of Vienna. Notable guests included Host Committee members Janna Bullock, Joanna Fisher, Ana Saucedo, Randi Schatz, and Marisa Rose Van Bokhorst, Honorary Guests Florence Hvorostovsky and Ann Ziff, Junior Chairs Emily Mohr and Colgate Rumbough, Junior Vice-Chair Briana Lestage, as well as Star Jones, Ricardo Lugo, John Paulson, Karlheinz Muhr, Martin Shafiroff and Stifel Investment Services, Hikmet Ersek (CEO of Western Union), Actress Samantha Mathis, Lukas Barwinski-Brown (CEO, Lang Lang International Music Foundation), Trisha Willis, John Willis, Diandra Douglas, Sandra Stockmayer (Viennese dancing school Svabek), Agnieszka and Witold Balaban, and U.S. Military Academy West Point Cadets who marched in with flags representing America, Austria, and the European Union before singing the three respective anthems.

Sponsors included The City of Vienna, Royal Flowers, A.E. Koechert, Aida, as well as a selection of donated Austrian wines and spirits by Schlumberger, Sonor Wines, Esterhazy, Rick Gin and Manufaktur Mueller, and Hallstein Water. The debutantes wore beautiful donated tiaras by Austrian jewelry company Ciro, and were exclusively styled, together with the opera singers, by The Salon at BG.

The 2020 Debutantes

Aimee Anne-Caroline Auguin of New York City

Daughter of French conductor Philippe Auguin and opera singer Jena Ruchek

Natalie Aldridge of Mequon, Wisconsin

Daughter of Thomas Lee and Jane Marie Aldridge

Rachel Barcellona of Palm Harbor, Florida

Daughter of Frank and Barbara Barcellona

An Autism advocate

Despina Drougas of New Fairfield Connecticut

Daughter of Demosthenes and Carmela Drougas

Rachel Engelberg of Vienna, Austria

Daughter of Martin Engelberg, Member of the National Council of Austria and Danielle Spera, Director of the Jewish Museum of Vienna

Clara Heupgen of Munich, Germany

Daughter of His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador to Portugal, Thomas Stelzer, and Helene Heupgen

Asia Hickman of West Point, New York

Daughter of Marc Hickman (U.S. Department of Defense) and Major Jamie Hickman (U.S. Army)

She is the 2017 Miss New York Teen America

Katherine Kuhl of New York City

Daughter of the late Dr. David Kuhl and Diane Kuhl of the American Ballet Theatre

Luisa Majnoni d’Intignano of New York City

Daughter of Giovanni Majnoni d’Intignano, a Director of the Bank of Italy and Bonizella Biagini of United Nations Development Programme

Proudly representing the country of her birth, Italy

Anastacia Grace Weyerhaeuser McCarthy Markoe of White Bear Lake, Montana

Daughter of James Admire Markoe, Jr. and Sarah Jane McCarthy

Christiane McCabe of New York City

Daughter of Michael J. McCabe and Aline Rizk

Olivia Maria McNaughten of New York City

Daughter of Anthony McNaughten and Rossana McNaughten

Yaelle Shaked of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Daughter of Alon and Lorraine Shaked

Currently attending Harvard University

Doris Winkler of Vienna, Austria

Daughter of Harald Swoboda and Brigitte Winkler

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65th Viennese Opera Ball Benefits Music Therapy Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Elisabeth Muhr, Denise Rich, and Jean Shafiroff chaired the 65th Viennese Opera Ball on Friday, February 7, 2020, at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York City, under the patronage of The President of the Republic of Austria, H.E.

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tiaramania · 3 years

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Peridot Tiaras

Habsburg Peridot Parure Tiara by Köchert, circa 1820

Peridot & Seed Pearl Tiara, circa 1830

Peridot Tiara, circa 1890

Queen of Sheba Tiara by Lydia Courtielle, 2016

Lotus Tiara by Aril Jewels, 2023

Tiara Materials 8 of ∞

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tiaramania · 3 years

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s Emerald Ivy Tiara by Köchert is honestly stunning! What happened to it?

I know frustratingly little about Empress Elisabeth's jewels but I at least know the origins of this one. The tiara was part of a larger emerald parure made by Köchert in 1878 from jewelry that already belonged to the Austrian Imperial Family.

Some of the Austrian jewels were stolen and some of them were sold. I’m not sure exactly what happened to the emerald parure but it doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

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tiaramania · 3 years

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I have heard that the Pearl Tiara of Sissi’s daughter and the Peridot Tiara of Archduchess Isabella are now at the Albion Arts Museum in Japan . Is this true?

Not that I'm aware of but it's hard to know exactly what's part of the Albion Arts Institute. They don't feature anywhere near all of their inventory in their virtual museum and sometimes they sell certain pieces to buy others. None of the tiaras here are in the virtual museum or on any of their social media so I'm going to guess that they don't currently own them but it's possible.

Archduchess Isabella’s Peridot Parure Tiara was made by Köchert circa 1825. The only reference I could find to Albion owning it was this blog from 2014 which is not really a good enough source for me to say that it definitely belongs to them. The parure was last publicly sold at Sotheby’s in 2001 and was bought by Fred Leighton. Then the earrings and brooch were sold again in 2012 at Christie’s but the tiara was not included. (x)

I’m not sure which of Archduchess Marie Valerie’s pearl tiaras you mean. The first one was made by Köchert circa 1890 and was sold at Dorotheum in 2019 for 442,500 EUR to an unknown buyer. It wouldn’t surprise me if Albion bought this but I would have expected them to make it public by now.

The second pearl tiara owned by Archduchess Marie Valerie was made by Köchert in 1913. It was last publicly sold at Christie’s in 2005 for 252,000 CHF. I’ve seen some Pinterest pins (that sounds awkward) that say that it was bought by Albion but when it’s been part of exhibitions in the last decade or so it’s been credited as belonging to the Qatar Museum Authority. They’ve become big buyers of historic jewelry in recent years but like Albion they change out their inventory so it’s possible that it’s was first bought by Albion in 2005 and later sold to the Qatar Museum Authority.

So I guess my answer is a big bunch of maybe?

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tiaramania · 4 years

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Tiara Possibly Owned by Empress Elisabeth Up for Auction

Marylou Whitney’s Ruby & Diamond Floral Tiara is being auctioned at Sotheby’s on December 9th in New York for an estimated 100,000-200,000 USD. The tiara was made in the mid-1800s and consists of rubies and diamonds set in silver and gold. The flowers are en tremblant meaning they are set on springs so they move with the wearer.

Whitney was an American socialite, racehorse owner, and avid jewelry collector who passed away in 2019. She claimed that the tiara belonged to Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria. From The New York Times,

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is “terribly happy” with hers, once owned by the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor Franz Josef. “It wasn't one of the Empress's major tiaras,” Mrs. Whitney said candidly. “It was just an everyday tiara but when you wear it, inside you feel absolutely great. A tiara moves up a lady greatly.” The everyday tiara has 1,900 diamonds (weighing 180 carats) and 75 rubies and is shaped into wild roses and sparkling dew drops. It is set on little springs “to wiggle a little with a lovely movement when I walk.” Mrs. Whitney pins her tiara on with four bobby pins and then forgets she has it on. “I enjoy wearing it because it's light and so well distributed. A heavy tiara can ruin a woman's evening,” she said. (x)

Prior to the tiara being bought by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in 1952 it was owned by Harry Winston and was part of his ‘Court of Jewels’ touring exhibition that raised money for local charities from 1949-1953. There it was labeled the Austrian Diadem saying that it was from the time of Emperor Franz Joseph but did not say that it belonged to Empress Elisabeth.

Ursula from Royal Magazin, who is my go to expert on Austrian jewels, doesn’t think that the tiara belonged to Empress Elisabeth but she did find a design sketch by Köchert that is similar to the tiara meaning it’s very possible that the tiara belonged to someone at the Austrian Imperial Court even if it didn’t belong to the Empress herself. (x)

Sotheby’s language is very careful not to say that the tiara belonged to Sisi instead stating that Whitney claimed it did. To me this means that they don’t have any proof that it belonged to the Empress but want to mention it because it will drive up the price.

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tiaramania · 4 years

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Hey there. I love your blog and website! Thanks for all the free information you gather. I hate to be that guy, but I noticed that sometimes in posts and tags regarding the jeweller Köchert, you use Kochert instead. It is totally reasonable if your language doesn't use the ö to want to avoid it, but the correct replacement for ö is oe, not o. I know this seems minor, but it makes a HUGE difference for pronunciation and meaning. (Like the famous schwül - schwul). Thanks again for all you do!

Thanks! I have no idea how to make the symbol above the o with my keyboard. When I want it there I go to google type Kochert find an entry that says Köchert then copy and paste it back to where I want it. I do the same thing with née to get the symbol above the e. I looked back at my posts because I do want to have the correct spelling and they all had the umlaut (I learned that word from an episode of Psych) but I’ll be extra careful in the future to remember it. I’m not sure what to do about the tags because Tumblr is weird about having special characters in the tags and I want people to be able to find my posts. I thought I would just put both Kochert and Köchert in the tags but it doesn’t let me paste a tag. I think I”ll put Kochert and Koechert both in the tags because people aren’t going to know to search for Koechert.

#Tiara Talk #Kochert #Koechert

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