{"id":6802,"date":"2012-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/baroda-pearls\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:00:00","slug":"baroda-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/baroda-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroda pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perfection, elegance, mystery: these adjectives partly define the beauty of the legendary Baroda pearls<\/strong>, one of the most important pearl necklaces – originally with 7 strands<\/strong> – in the whole world, a priceless treasure<\/strong> of natural pearls that once was part of the Baroda treasure<\/strong> dated to the Mughal times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Along with the Baroda pearls carpet, dated 1865-70<\/strong> and ordered as a gift for the grave of the prophet Muhammad<\/strong>, and the 3 strands diamond necklace, these pearls were worn by the Maharaja Pratapsingh Gaekwar<\/strong> along with his dear wife Sita Devi<\/strong>, a great admirer of antique jewellery.<\/p>\n

But, when we talk about the Baroda pearls in this field, it is surely referred to the two strands necklace with 68 perfectly graduated pearls<\/strong> and diamond clasp by Cartier<\/strong>; whereas from the fourth to the seventh strand of the original necklace, with ring and brooch, were sold by the auction house Christie’s for $7,096,000<\/strong> in april 2007 in New York.<\/p>\n

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Pearls like these rarely appear on the market, and particular type characterized by astonishing beauty and perfection has definitely taken the name of the most famous ones.<\/p>\n

In november 1999<\/strong> Christie’s action house of Geneva sold a single strand of 41 magnificent pearls<\/strong>, belonged firstly to Marie Antoniette<\/strong> queen of France then to Barbara Hutton<\/strong> heiress of Woolworth, for $1,450,000<\/strong>. 5 years later the same auction house has then sold another nekclace, this time a two strands one with 82 pearls, for the impressive price of $3,128,520<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfection, elegance, mystery: these adjectives partly define the beauty of the legendary Baroda pearls, one of the most important pearl necklaces – originally with 7 strands – in the whole world, a priceless treasure of natural pearls that once was part of the Baroda treasure dated to the Mughal times. Along with the Baroda pearls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}