LAS JOYAS MÁS HERMOSAS DEL MUNDO

Corto siempre tras los diamantes ;
)

Estuve en el interior.
El jueves fue mi santo (San Nicolás) almorcé con mi madre y luego ya de fin de semana al interior del país. Pasé un lindo fin de semana

10 del 10

Nico, obviamente me llevo el collar y la pulsera de..... ya te imaginas , son lindos realmente aunque el diseño es distinto.
Gracias.

El broche de esmeraldas, el penúltimo está precioso aunque las esmeraldas no me gustan mucho.

Ayer vino mi mamá con una amiga que tenía un anillo igual a este. El de ella tenía in záfiro azul, se veía tan lindo, fino y a la vez simple.
Me enamoré !!! :smt055

Tipo marquesa creo que le dicen,mi mamá tenía uno antiguo muy parecido y parece que lo desarmó, no lo recuerdo bien.

El anillo lo dejé para que no digan que soy abusadora.
Esto es muy bonito.

Marquesa para mi es otra cosa

este de regalo de navidad me vendria muy bien seria buenisimo...

muy lindo sobre todo la pulsera de turquesas, lindisima y muy moderna.

Esas joyas con esmeraldas me gustaron todas

Nico, si lo dices seguro es así, yo no se mucho.

Andrea, que bonitas joyas, creo que las rojas deben de ser granates.

Siguiendo con las esmeraldas, estás también son bonitas.

¿ Nico, este anillo también es marquesa ?

QUE BELLEZAS HAN PUESTO!!!

Esas hojas trabajadas de a una...
La pulsera que te llevaste Andrea es hermosa.
Pienso que si que es también una marquesa pero deberíamos preguntar



ESMERALDAS HINDUES.

Estoy cargando mi canasto de navidad para repartir en la fecha

:smt111

y si van diciendo lo que quieren me ahorrarían el trabajo

:smt114

Cositas como éstas pondré en Navidad y creo las pondré todas juntas sin nombre y que elija cada uno lo que quiera

muy lindo Nico todo lo que has puesto, me encantan las plumas estilo principe de gales. ;
)

THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

MARIE ANTOINETTE'S PEARLS
Lot Description AN HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT NATURAL PEARL, DIAMOND AND RUBY NECKLACE
Designed as a fringe of twenty one graduated drop-shaped grey natural pearls, each suspended from an old-cut diamond collet surmount to the diamond V-shaped ribbon along a cushion-shaped ruby collar set with twelve button-shaped grey natural pearls, mounted in gold, pearls circa 1780, necklace made in 1849, 36.2 cm long, in fitted maroon leather case
Accompanied by report no. 984035 dated 11 September 2007 from the Precious Stone Laboratory London stating that the four (central) pearls are natural pearls, three of which are coloured pearls and that no evidence of artificial staining was detected

Provenance Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, later Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre (1755-1793), Queen consort of King Louis XVI (1754-1793), daughter of Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria

Lady Elizabeth Sutherland, Duchess of Sutherland and suo jure 19th Countess of Sutherland, later Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1765-1839), wife of George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), Viscount Trentham, from 1786 2nd Earl Gower, succeeding his father as 2nd Marquess of Stafford in 1803, created 1st Duke of Sutherland in 1833, British ambassador to France from 1790 to 1792

Her son, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower (1786-1861), in 1861 2nd Duke of Sutherland

His daughter-in-law, Anne Hay-Mackenzie (1829-1888), daughter of John Hay-Mackenzie of Cromartie and Newhall and great-great-granddaughter of the last Mackenzie Earl of Cromarty, married on 20 June 1849 George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), Marquess of Stafford from 1833 to 1861, from 1861 3rd Duke of Sutherland, to become Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland and 19th Countess of Sutherland, known as Countess of Cromartie in her own right from 1861, Mistress of the Robes and confidante of Queen Victoria from 1870 to 1874, thence by descent

Lot Notes Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1755-1793)

Marie Antoinette is probably best remembered for her legendary excesses and for being the last Queen of France: at the height of the French Revolution, she met her fate on the guillotine in 1793, on the precept of treason.

Born in Vienna on 2 November 1755, she was sent to Versailles at the age of just fourteen to become the Dauphine and cement a political alliance between Austria and France. Before entering France, she was stripped of her nationality, belongings and clothes in front of the entire Austrian delegation. Upon her arrival at Versailles, she was married to the Dauphin Louis-Auguste, one year her senior, on 16 May 1770. Just prior to the wedding she was presented with the magnificent jewels traditionally belonging to a French Dauphine, including an elaborate diamond necklace formerly belonging to Anne of Austria and jewels which had once belonged to Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine de Medici. Their marriage was not consummated for several years. When King Louis XV suddenly died of smallpox, Marie Antoinette, then aged 19, suddenly became Queen. King Louis XVI supposedly exclaimed 'Dear God, guide and protect us. We are too young to reign.'

Marie Antoinette enjoyed no political influence with her husband. However, she was determined to avoid boredom, and the latest comedy, joke, witticism or gossip was the only topic of conversation around the Queen: according to her Lady-in-Waiting, Madame Campan, 'discussion on a serious plane was banished from her court'. Spending huge amounts of money (since she had no real idea of its value) mainly on clothes, gambling and diamonds, she indulged in a three-day gambling party for her twenty-first birthday. Issues of spending and exclusive friendships angered and alienated the Court, whereas vindictive rumours about her sexual life began to chip away at the Queen's popularity with the people.

When in 1778 she finally bore her first child, the newborn daughter was a disappointment to France who expected a male heir to the throne but Marie Antoinette was delighted with a girl: 'A son would have belonged to the state,' she said, 'but you shall be mine, and have all my care;
you shall share my happiness and soften my sorrows.'

As she grew older she became much less extravagant, dressed with more restraint, abandoned the more elaborate wigs and refused to buy any more jewels for her personal collection. She was very generous and charitable;
yet her popularity was already much in decline and when the Royal family was afflicted by the death of both the youngest daughter and, more importantly, that of the Dauphin Louis-Joseph in 1789, the King was faced with a political crisis which soon developed into what was to be the French Revolution. After the storming of the Bastille in July 1789, many aristocrats fled abroad and Marie Antoinette felt it was unwise to stay at Versailles, so close to the current troubles in Paris. She hoped to move to one of the Royal residences further away from Paris, but her husband decided that they would stay at Versailles. Louis XVI was to realise soon what a grave mistake he had made not to leave Versailles when he still had the chance. When a few months later, on 5 October 1789, the mob marched on Versailles, Marie Antoinette narrowly escaped from being lynched and showed great bravery in facing the angry crowd. The Royal family were taken prisoners and forced to move to the dilapidated Tuileries Palace in Paris, and the Queen became known and admired for her dignified courage during the trials and sufferings to come. One year later, on 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette was taken to the guillotine. At the sight of the instrument of death, the priest who accompanied her allegedly said, 'This is the moment, Madame, to arm yourself with courage.' Turning to look at him, Marie Antoinette smiled, 'Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.' According to legend, her last words were 'Pardonnez-moi, monsieur,' (Excuse me, sir), spoken when accidentally stepping on the executioner's foot.


Lady Elizabeth Sutherland (1765-1839)

Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Countess of Sutherland, regarded by her male admirers as beautiful, intelligent and charming (whereas women often thought of her as overbearing), was a leading force in organising the controversial so-called Highland Clearances on her vast estate in Scotland. Privately she enjoyed spending time with her four children, consuming snuff while she was also a gifted watercolourist and engaged in correspondence with Walter Scott. A woman of remarkable social and political standing, she accompanied her husband George Granville-Leveson-Gower to France when he was appointed British ambassador in 1790, a post of extreme importance and difficulty at the time of the French Revolution. Her observations provide an interesting account of the political turbulences until the hurried withdrawal of the embassy in August 1792. About her presentation at Court Lady Elizabeth wrote to her mother in law, Lady Stafford that 'It is a very formidable ceremony, performed en plein cour, rather worse than dancing at St James' in the most uncomfortable dress that can be imagined. I was very charmed by the Queen;
c'est en verité une femme superbe, and her manner has so much grace and is so pleasing at the same time qu'elle est tout-a-fait seduisante' (1).

After the move of the Royal family to the Tuileries, Countess Sutherland repeatedly showed her support and concern for them and the imprisoned Queen in particular, suggesting a reasonably close relationship between them. Indeed, according to an unverified source, Lady Sutherland was the only one visiting the interned Queen during the preparation for the revolution on 9th August 1792.

When on 20 June 1791 King Louis XVI and his family made their celebrated attempt to escape France, the Countess did 'all in her power to assist their flight by furnishing disguises to Queen Marie Antoinette and the little Dauphin' (2). However, the attempt was abortive and the Royal family were brought back to Paris.

Her faithful Lady-in-Waiting Madame Campan 'expressed a desire to know what the foreign ambassadors had done in this catastrophe. The Queen replied that they had done nothing, but that the English ambassadress, Lady Sutherland, had just displayed some interest by sending linen for the Dauphin, who was in need of it' (3). This was reportedly the last gesture of kindness shown to the doomed Queen.

In August 1792, London had to withdraw her ambassador. Lady Sutherland was issued with a passport reading:

Liberty Equality
In the name of the Nation
To every civil or military officer responsible
for maintaining public order in the 83 départements:
you are ordered to give free passage to
Madame Elizabeth Countess of Sutherland,
wife of the English ambassador,
27 years old, five foot tall,
light brown hair and eyebrows, chestnut brown eyes,
well-formed nose, small mouth, round chin, forehead,
face a little long, returning to England, without putting, or allowing to be put,
any obstacle in her way. The present passport
is valid for twenty days.
Paris, the 26th August 1792, the 4th year of Liberty
the first of Equality
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Le Brun


According to family tradition, Marie Antoinette gave Lady Elizabeth, prior to her departure, a sachet of pearls and a sachet of diamonds. The diamonds were subsequently fashioned into the Sutherland diamond necklace, whereas the pearls were mounted as a necklace on the occasion of George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Lady Elizabeth's grandson, to Anne Hay-Mckenzie on 20 June 1849, and which is presently offered for sale.


(1) Looking Back: The Autobiography of the Duke of Sutherland (London 1957), p. 25.
(2) Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh 1911), vol. III, p. 361.
(3) Imbert de Saint-Amand, Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty (London 1892), p.333.