The jewels of Marie Antoinette. Entered into legend after the revolution, they have passed into many hands, from one noblewoman to another, and have been disassembled over and over again because precious stones have so many lives and can be set in many different jewels.
With the start of the jewelry revolution, they were lost for a while and then used many times to create new joys for many different ladies. Marie-Thérèse, the surviving daughter of Marie Antoinette, was entrusted by the sovereign with a very large pink diamond of 10.38 carats, an extraordinary gem in the shade of purple called Marie-Thérèse Pink.
Maria Antonietta loved the earrings, her was a real passion, set to art to enhance the light and movement, to make it more beautiful and graceful. The sovereign had many of them and boasted with the other ladies of the court precisely for their magnificence and their extraordinary workmanship thanks to the best jewelers in France.
Other iconic jewels of Marie Antoinette were two diamond bracelets, two fabulous and very refined pieces that had 112 diamonds and were really opulent. They were beaten at auction in Geneva in 2021 and achieved a very high listing.
The ladies, you know, competed to wear the best jewelry and the best clothes, full of fine fabrics and made with unique and personalized yarns. The clothes of Maria Antonietta were many and very sought after, with their elegant and refined shape, the sovereign liked to change often and show off her majestic dresses for really exclusive occasions such as dinners and gala lunches.
But the history of the jewels and fabulous dresses of the French sovereign is very rich and fascinating, so, moreover, Maria Antonietta was a true icon, a real style teacher and condensing all her history in short is practically impossible.
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