Sold for 8.1 million dollars - Marie Antoinette's bracelets
Fabulous and you do not get much more French than this, a piece of French history.....Two diamond bracelets, which Marie-Antoinette had hidden in a wooden chest before being guillotined during the French Revolution, were sold at the ?Christie's Magnificent Jewels? auction in Geneva for $ 8.1 million, this Tuesday, November 9, reveals Forbes. The sum supplanted pre-sale estimates of between $ 2 million and $ 4 million, the economic review reports. The buyer, who was bidding over the phone, took only five minutes to acquire the jewelry. It has not yet been identified, while interest in the property of the former queen of France continues to grow, notes the Guardian. These jewels are presented as one of the last vestiges of the monarch's jewelry cabinet, the Christie's press release says. Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, who did not deny herself any pleasure, had ordered these diamond bracelets in 1776, two years after she became queen, from her personal jeweler Charles Auguste Boehmer. The two three-row bracelets are set with 112 diamonds, made up of the ?old cut? stones in gold and silver, says Christie's. According to Jean Marc Lunel, specialist in jewelry from the auction house, it is ?miraculous? that they could have been kept in such good condition.
Kept for over 200 years
The royal jewels had been carefully wrapped in cotton by the queen in January 1791, while she was imprisoned in the Tuileries Palace. Since the French Revolution was in full swi...
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