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The Maharaja of Indore Necklace is a diamond and emerald-studded necklace. As of 2008, it is on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States. It was originally named the Spanish Inquisition Necklace by the American jeweller Harry Winston, though it had no known connection with the historical Spanish ...
Charles Robert Winston (1915 – 2003) was an American jeweler, sculptor, and educator. [1] He was known for his organic forms and sculptural jewelry in 1950s and 1960s. [ 2 ] Winston was a co-founder of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco , [ 1 ] a non-profit, arts educational organization. [ 3 ]
Winston's father Jacob started a small jewelry business. He and Winston's mother were Jewish immigrants to the United States from the Russian Empire. [10] While growing up, Harry worked in his father's shop. When he was twelve years old, he recognized a two-carat emerald in a pawn shop, bought it for 25 cents, and sold it two days later for ...
The necklace was designed to fit Taylor's neck allowing the diamond to cover her tracheotomy scar resulting from her bout with near fatal pneumonia in 1961. [3] In 1980, Robert Mouawad, subsequent owner of the Taylor Burton diamond, had it recut to 68.0 carats (13.60 g).
Designed by Jacques Timey, the necklace features a coveted Golconda stone. A Harry Winston Necklace With a Giant 38-Carat Diamond Could Be Yours for $7.5 Million Skip to main content
Art deco, important and whimsical fine jewelry Paul Edmund Flato (September 1, 1900 – July 17, 1999), was an American jeweler, based in New York City from the 1920s to the early 1940s. Considered the first celebrity jeweler, [ 1 ] he was well known for important jewelry, and as an early proponent of whimsical pieces.
Dismissed by Ritson as new-fangled and by Scott as inauthentic, Mrs. Brown’s ballads were considered exemplary by both Robert Jamieson and, later, Francis James Child, who gave her variants pride of place in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads as instances of the best the popular ballad tradition had to offer. In the twentieth century ...
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