Thanks Richard ................... Archived Message
Posted by LittleMo  on November 24, 2011, 5:11 pm, in reply to "Re: The Maharaja of Patiala's diamond necklace"
........ for confirming that for me, it was a lovely exhibition to visit, and wasn't there an exquisite embroidered silk table cloth or something ?
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: I was lucky enough to visit the exhibition
: entitled,Maharajah The Splendour of Indias
: Royal Courts the exhibition catalogue is/was
: available from Amazon.co.uk.This necklace
: was among other pieces on display,along with
: "The Hindou Necklace" made for The
: Maharani of Baroda Sita Devi,white diamonds
: with magnificent polished emerald
: drops,designed and made by Van Cleef and
: Arpels.
: An emerald and diamond belt buckle,set with
: an engraved emerald of over 400 carats,both
: sold 15th May 2002 by Christie's in
: Geneva.An Art Deco Emerald Bead and Diamond
: Necklace by Cartier along with some
: magnificent original workshop drawings by
: Cartier and Mauboussin of necklaces.All
: pieces i had seen in books and
: catalogues,and now finally in the
: flesh,breathtaking pieces indeed.
: Another magnificent treasure in the
: exhibition was,The Jade Elephant Mystery
: Clock,an amazingingly carved chinese jade
: elephant with a jewelled mystery clock
: resting on a gem encrusted replica blanket
: and head dress.One of my favourite mystery
: clocks,originally sold in 1989 by Christie's
: in New York for over $1.5 million dollars a
: record at the time.
: I hope this helps,just google the names of
: the pieces and you can see how extraordinary
: they are.
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: Thanks for this John, an interesting
: history.
:
: The V&A museum in London did an exhibition
: from the Raj a few years ago and there was
: some wonderful jewellery on display there.
: I wonder if anyone can confirm what those
: pieces were ?
: (was this one of them ?)
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: I recently received some information from
: the Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva where they
: are renovating a suite named after the
: Maharaja of Patiala.
: Included in this information was the story
: of his diamond necklace 'the largest piece
: of jewelry ever made'.
: In 1888 a yellow diamond was discovered in
: South Africa weighing 428 carats & after
: it was cut 234.65 carats, the largest yellow
: octahedron diamond in the world. It was
: called the De Beers diamond & was
: acquired by the Maharaja of Patiala. In 1928
: he ordered a necklace from Cartier - 2930
: diamonds with the De Beers as the
: centrepiece. There were also seven other
: large diamonds in the necklace weighing
: between 18 and 73 carats as well as several
: Burmese rubies.
: The necklace was last seen worn by the
: Maharaja's son just befor the end of the
: British Raj. It then disappeared.
: In 1982 the diamond reappeared at a
: Southeby's auction & sold for $3.16
: milion.
: Sixteen years later someone discovered the
: rest of the necklace in a second-hand
: jewelry shop in London. The important stones
: had disappeared, unsurprisingly. Cartier
: bought this skeleton & spent four years
: restoring it, using synthetic stones.
: Wouldn't it make a great story if the
: necklace could tell its tale?
: Also, the Indian Princes were famed for
: their jewels, I wonder how much they still
: retain.
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