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Soviet jewelry falls under the category of art, antiques and collectibles which are all grouped and defined as Movable Cultural Property. [1] [2] Although all Soviet jewelry can be called art, most of jewelry from USSR is considered to be collectibles and some, depending on the jurisdiction under which they are located, are (or soon to become) legitimate antiques.
Three of her personal bracelets were on loan to the exhibition from the Dutch Royal collection. Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court (Dutch: Juwelen! Schitteren aan het Russische Hof) was the second jubileum exhibition in Amsterdam by the H'ART Museum, focussed on the personal taste for luxury by Russian nobility.
The Diamond Fund (Russian: Алмазный фонд) is a unique collection of gems, jewelry and natural nuggets, which are stored and exhibited in the Kremlin Armoury in Russia. The Fund was opened in 1967 and its collection dates back to the Russian Crown treasury instituted by Emperor Peter I of Russia in 1719.
Bordering the edges of the "mitre" are a number of large white pearls. The crown is also decorated with one of the seven historic stones of the Russian Diamond Collection: a large precious red spinel weighing 398.72 carats (79.744 g), known as the Menshikov Ruby, which was bought in China in 1702 by the Nerchinsk merchant Yan Istopnikov. It is ...
A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
Sources from the times of the Russian Empire differ in the definition of the stone that topped the great imperial crowns of Russian emperors and empresses: some of them define it as a true ruby, a precious red corundum (“oriental ruby”, “yakhont”, “red yakhont”), [9] [10] and others define it as “lal”, [6] [11] that is, spinel ...
After the revolution, British diplomats helped recover some of the Russian Court jewelry, and the Vladimir Tiara, a diamond diadem with large pearl pendants that originally belonged to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, was bought by Queen Mary, wife to King George V, in 1921.
It originally had 15 large drop pearls, and was made by the jeweller Carl Edvard Bolin at a cost of 48,200 rubles. [19] [20] During the Russian Revolution in 1917, the tiara was hidden with other jewels somewhere in Vladimir Palace in Petrograd, and later saved from Soviet Russia by Albert Stopford, a British art dealer and secret agent. [21]