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An extremely rare diamond necklace with possible historical links to Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for nearly $5 million.. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, luxury auction house Sotheby's ...
The Napoleon Diamond Necklace is somewhat atypical of other contemporary works produced by Marie-Étienne Nitot. [1] Other pieces commissioned from him by Emperor Napoleon, such as the two parures celebrating the Emperor's marriage to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, the Marie Louise Diadem, the wedding jewels for Empress Joséphine, etc., all demonstrate a predilection for highly ...
At the death of the King, the necklace was unpaid for, which almost bankrupted the jewellers and then led to various unsuccessful schemes to secure a sale to Queen Marie Antoinette. The Affair of the Diamond Necklace ( French : Affaire du collier de la reine , "Affair of the Queen's Necklace") was an incident from 1784 to 1785 at the court of ...
The Marie Antoinette Diamond Earrings are a pair of diamond earrings on permanent display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States. They are so named for their assumed provenance: that they were commissioned by King Louis XVI of France for his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette .
Sophia Tolli was born Sophia Apostolides in Australia. [2] Tolli's beginnings in the fashion industry stemmed from her aunt, a gifted dressmaker. [3] Tolli selected the fabrics for the clothes that her aunt would create, giving her an opportunity to develop a keen eye for styles, colors, and more.
When Cristóbal Balenciaga closed his atelier in 1968, Diana Vreeland quipped that von Bismarck did not leave her bedroom in the villa at Capri for three days. She donated her papers and photos to the Filson Historical Society in 1976, and several items of unique jewelry to the Smithsonian Institution , including the Bismarck Sapphire Necklace .
The watch is thought to have been commissioned in 1783 by an unknown admirer of the French Queen, Marie Antoinette. [2] It took nineteen years to complete. Marie Antoinette did not live to see the watch, as it was completed 9 years after she was executed. Work stopped for around seven years (1789–1795) during the period of Breguet's exile.
One of the most famous pieces Schlumberger ever created was the mounting for the famed Tiffany Diamond, which was in the firm's collection since the nineteenth century.. The brooch, entitled "Bird on a Rock", incorporates the impressive 128.54 carats (25.708 g) yellow diamond in a fanciful setting typical of Schlumberger's st