Auction of exceptional jewels: Sotheby's has kicked off the “Royal Jewels” road show which will take the Borbone Parma jewelery collection around the world. The sale will take place in Geneva on November 12, 2018. This is how FIRST Arte presents it. A selection of jewels, never seen before, was previewed in London a few days ago and arrives today, Thursday 21 June, in Rome. The next stops will be Milan on 27 June, Munich on 18 September and Cologne on 21 September. Then again New York and Hong Kong, then the sale in Switzerland.
The love for jewels and the passion for history come together in the exhibition with which Sotheby's presents the auction dedicated to "Royal Jewels" the royal jewels of the Bourbon Parma family. Something never seen before starting with the pieces pearls and diamonds that belonged to Marie Antoinette, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria who married Louis XVI at the age of 18 in France and ended up with him on the guillotine in 1793. Terror, blood and precious stones: a diamond pendant supports a pearl of exceptional dimensions (26mm x 18mm). Delicate and refined design, which woman wouldn't want to be able to wear it at least once in her life? It will go to auction in Geneva on November 12, 2018, with a starting estimate of 1-2 million dollars, a strong "piece" in a basket of about a hundred unique jewels that belonged to the Bourbon-Parma family that has intertwined over the years , its destinies with those of the most important families of Europe. From the royalty of France and Spain, to the Empress Eugenia of Austria, to the Dukes of Parma”.
Among pendants, necklaces, brooches and tiaras that belonged to the most high-sounding European crowned heads, 200 years of history are staged. This is how FIRST Arte described the most precious "pieces".
Diamonds and pearls were much loved by Louis XVI's young wife and the jewelery package that belonged to her stands out an amazing necklace of 119 natural pearls, with a starting base of 200-300 dollars. Certainly it is not the same that inspired Alexandre Dumas and his famous novel "The Queen's Necklace", a storm of diamonds and at the center of court intrigues, but there is no doubt that it still makes you dream. How it takes your breath away parure composed of 95 diamonds (estimated at 300-500 dollars) which adorned the neck of her niece Luisa di Francia. Instead, it belonged to the House of Habsburg cartouche-shaped diamond tiara given by Emperor Franz Joseph (1882-1916) to his niece Maria Anna of Austria……
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