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Oben ein Bild des schönen Harcourt Diadems, der Viscountess Harcourt,
Lady Ashburten, Ihre Tochter trug diese Tiara 1953 anlässlich der
Krönung von Königin Elizabeth II (siehe Bild) Das exquisite Diadem besteht aus gebündelten Blumenköpfen
und Blättern die von Diamant-Bänder unterbrochen werden, schleifenförmige
Motive verzieren die ovalen offenen Bögen, in deren Mittelpunkt
insgesamt sieben aussergewöhnliche Smaragde gefasst wurden.
The exquisite tiara is composed of sprays of diamond flowerheads and leaves running between borders of continuous diamond ribbon motifs with the focus centering on seven outstanding emeralds. The tiara was worn by the Dowager Viscountess together with the ‘Harcourt Emeralds’ – a magnificent emerald and diamond necklace of total 150 carat of equisit emeralds - which Christie’s sold for £1,870,000 in London on 21 June 1989,to the jeweller Graff. The Harcourt tiara which was auctioned at Christies(2005) was sold to Laurence Graff also for $1,583,553, the third highest price ever realized for such an item The emeralds themselves have a fascinating provenance: they originally descended from Mary Hayes Burns, the sister of the banker J. Pierpont Morgan, to her daughter Mary, who married Lewis, first Viscount Harcourt, in 1899. The tiara dates from their wedding. Above in the scetch the orginal size and weight in carat of the necklace.....in enormes sizes of total 150 ct emeralds
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