A diamond studded beads pendant for the former French Queen Marie-Antoinette was auctioned off for 28.1 million Euro. After a 14-minute bidding war, a man received in Geneva, the Supplement. According to the auction house Sotheby’s, it is a record price for a pearl. The estimated price was previously set at 0.88 to 1.78 million Euro.
The auction house had on Wednesday evening, a total of nine Lots with pieces of jewelry in the offer, in the meantime for the possession of the former Queen. The jewels brought a total of 32.6 million Euro. Particularly expensive is also a three-row pearl necklace with diamond-set buckle (1.67 million euros), as well as a diamond-encrusted brooch (1.54 million euros) were sold in addition Celtabet to the pearl pendant. Add to that each auction and other fees.
This diamond ring with the initials MA, generated approximately 392.470 Euro
Queen Marie-Antoinette and her husband Louis XVI had been executed in 1793 during the French Revolution with the guillotine (more on this, why Marie-Antoinette in revolutionary France was so hated, you can learn here). The pieces of jewelry were taken just before the arrest of the ruler-smuggled pair abroad and were 200 years in the possession of the noble family of Bourbon-Parma. As long as the jewelry had not been seen in Public.
At the auction on Wednesday evening of 100 Lots from various centuries, came to call. It s been made according to Sotheby’s, a total of nearly 47 million euros.
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