Royal Jewels

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Christie’s Jewelery specialist Helen Molesworth displays interesting rings
Emerald and diamond ring
(L): $600,000-$800,000;
Colored diamond ring (2L): $1,400,000-$1,650,000
Sapphire ring
(2R): $300,000–$410,000 and
Single-stone diamond ring (R): $600,000–$680,000
nice eh?

 

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This orange-brown briolette-cut diamond weighing 100.60 carats within a pave-set diamond hook-and-eye clasp $ 1,000,000–$1,200,000

 

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This displayed diamond choker necklace made of a pear-shaped diamond weighing 20.28 carats and another smaller pear-shaped diamond weighing 2.05 carats

 

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A ruby and titanium brooch by Michele Della Valle embedded with 5,000 rubies weighing almost 300 carats.

 

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sapphire and diamond pendant from cartier....i think i just fainted...like wow.

 

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eye candy

 

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Sapphire ring. This platinum ring has a 62-carat center sapphire surrounded by 4.39 carats of pavé diamonds. Houston Museum

 

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13.39 carat stunner that got sold off at Geneva-based Christie’s breaking the world record at $8.9 million. blue diamond

 

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how about we look at some ancient peruvian royal gold?
Sicán Lord Removable Forehead Piece used with the Sicán Lord Headdress

 

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Title: Mask of the Sicán Lord, Fully Ornamented
Middle Sicán (900 – 1100 AD)
Medium: Gold, Amber, and Turquoise Beads
Dimensions: Height: 44.8cm Width: 21.3cm
Photo Credit: Y. Yoshii/PAS
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum

 

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Title: Ornament adorned with Perforated Gold Discs
Middle Sicán (900 – 1100 AD)
Medium: Gold Laminate
Dimensions: Height: 14.3cm Width: 22cm Weight: 44.2g
Photo Credit: Y. Yoshii/PAS
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum

 

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Title: Gold Ear Spools with Turquoise Centre
Middle Sicán (900 – 1100 AD)
Medium: Gold and Turquoise
Dimensions: Diameter of each: 10cm (anterior), 7.2cm (posterior) Weight: 77.5g
Photo Credit: Y. Yoshii/PAS
Image Courtesy: The Royal Ontario Museum

 

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IRON CROWN OF LOMBARDY

"The Iron Crown of Lombardy (Corona Ferrea) is both a reliquary and one of the most ancient royal insignia of Europe. It is kept in the Cathedral at Monza near Milan, the capital of Lombardy.

Antiquity:

The Iron Crown is so called from a narrow band of iron about one centimeter (three-eighths of an inch) within it, said to be beaten out of one of the nails used at the Crucifixion. According to tradition, the nail was first given to Emperor Constantine I the Great by his mother Saint Helena, who discovered the Cross.

How it fell into the hands of the Lombard kings, Germanic conquerors of northern Italy, is not well explained.

The outer circlet of the crown is of six gold and enamel segments of beaten gold, joined together by hinges and set with precious stones that stand out in relief, in the form of crosses and flowers.

Its small size and hinged construction have suggested to some that it was originally an armlet or perhaps a votive crown that was presented to the Cathedral of Monza, where it is preserved as a holy relic.

Modern uses:

On March 1, 1026, Heribert, the archbishop of Milan, crowned Emperor Conrad II at Milan with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.

From the 9th to the 12th century the Kings of Italy received the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.

On the May 26, 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had himself crowned King of Italy at Milan, with suitable splendor and magnificence. Seated upon a superb throne, he was invested with the usual insignia of royalty by the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, and ascending the altar, he took the iron crown, and placing it on his head, exclaimed, being part of the ceremony used at the enthronement of the Lombard kings, Dieu me le donne, prendre garde ceux qui il touche – "God gives it to me, beware those who touch it".

On the occasion, Napoleon founded the Order of the Iron Crown, on June 15, 1805. After Napoleon''s fall and the annexation of Lombardy to Austria, the order was re-instituted by the Austrian Emperor Francis I, on January 1, 1816.
Emperor Ferdinand I was crowned King of Lombardy and Venetia in Milan on September 6, 1838, using the Iron Crown.

After the war between Austria and Italy, when the Austrian had to withdraw from Italy in 1859, the Iron Crown was delivered to Victor Emmanuel, the Savoye king of Piedmont-sardinia and soon after of re-united modern Italy.

A surprising image of the Iron Crown figures in Chaper 37 "Sunset" of Herman Melville''s Moby-Dick. The brief chapter is devoted to Captain Ahab''s soliloquy. Among his delusions of persecution and of grandeur, he imagines himself crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy."

 

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The £620K gold inlaid carriage...not a wearable ''jewel'' but a ''jewel'' non the less eh everyone?

 

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Pink-topaz-and-gold earrings and necklacefrom about 1830.
A complete set with bracelet and brooch belongs to Akiba Museum of Antique Jewellery

 

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Crown Jewels of the Shahs of Persia. Amongst the many eye-catching exhibits one of the most ornate is the Crown of Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, wife of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.This crown was made by the prestigious jewellers Van Clef and Arpels.

 

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nice Diamond parure...anyone know anything about it? i am looking...

 

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Part of the French Crown Jewels

 

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Given to Queen Elizabeth II in 1965; believed to have been owned by Empress Josephine of France, but later this theory was proven false

 

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Diadem from Empress Marie-Louise''s Emerald Parure..before it was reset in turquoise..i like it much better like this

 

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Portland Tiara, Cartier, 1902
Owned by the wife of the sixth Duke of Portland, Winifred Anna.

 

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Queen Mary of Great Britain''s Durbar Tiara...i prefer NOT to see it on camilla

 

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Sapphire & Diamond tiara
Modified many times, but originally belonged to Queen Hortense of Denmark, the daughter of Empress Josephine by her first marriage. Later belonged to Queen Marie-Amelie. Part of the French Crown Jewels.

 

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Queen Mary''s Stomacher
8 inches long, given to the Queen by Queen Mary in 1947 as a wedding gift. These were popular when women wore corsets, but now the Queen only wears one of the 3 sections of this piece.

 

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Copenhagen royal jewelry

 

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Jewelry from Royal Tombs, Ur, 3000BC for me, the historya of royal jewelry is so rich..i just adore ancient jewels..they interest me far more then the average jewels of today...bling or no bling!

 

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more ancient egyptian royal jewels

 

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The flattened skull and jewelry of Queen Puabi just as it was found in her tomb at Ur in Sumeria -
where Sarah and Abraham were born. Notice, too, her perfect teeth...

 

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Jewelry taken from Queen Puabi''s tomb at Ur in ancient Sumeria, 3rd millennium BC.

 

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The illustration is part of the crown - the various pieces could be arranged in several different ways