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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 372530, member: 2844&quot;]For those who can&#039;t access the pages, some more lovelies:</p><p><img src="https://cdn-01.independent.ie/world-news/article37005521.ece/AUTOCROP/w620/ipanews_9fc67daa-e2d3-49e3-99c9-cc309db53930_embedded812384" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://cdn-04.independent.ie/world-news/article37005522.ece/AUTOCROP/w620/ipanews_9fc67daa-e2d3-49e3-99c9-cc309db53930_embedded812375" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The story of how they came to be in the possession of the family, and of the other Habsburg jewellery that is also to be auctioned, from <a href="http://www.4-traders.com/SOTHEBYS-11842/news/Sothebys-English-Royal-Jewels-from-the-Bourbon-Parma-Family-Sotheby-s-Geneva-12-November-201-26760342/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=20180613" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.4-traders.com/SOTHEBYS-11842/news/Sothebys-English-Royal-Jewels-from-the-Bourbon-Parma-Family-Sotheby-s-Geneva-12-November-201-26760342/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=20180613" rel="nofollow">http://www.4-traders.com/SOTHEBYS-11842/news/Sothebys-English-Royal-Jewels-from-the-Bourbon-Parma-Family-Sotheby-s-Geneva-12-November-201-26760342/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=20180613</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The impressive ensemble of jewels to be offered this autumn has an extraordinary story. In March 1791, King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their children began to prepare their escape from France. According to accounts written by Marie Antoinette&#039;s lady in waiting, Madame Campan, the queen spent an entire evening in the Tuileries Palace wrapping all of her diamonds, rubies and pearls in cotton and placing them in a wooden chest. In the following days, the jewels were sent to Brussels, which was under the rule of the queen&#039;s sister, Archduchess Marie-Christine and which was home to Count Mercy Argentau. The count, the former Austrian Ambassador to Paris, was one of the only men who had retained the queen&#039;s trust. It was he who took delivery of the jewels and sent them on to Vienna, into the safe keeping of the Austrian Emperor, Marie Antoinette&#039;s nephew.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1792, the royal family was imprisoned in the Temple tower. Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were executed by guillotine in 1793 and their 10-year old son, Louis XVII, died in captivity. The king and queen&#039;s only surviving child, Marie-Thérèse de France (1778-1851), &quot;Madame Royale&quot;, was released in December 1795, after three years of solitary confinement. After learning of the deaths of her mother and brother, she was sent to Austria. Upon her arrival in Vienna in 1796, she was given her mother&#039;s jewels by her cousin, the emperor. Having borne no children of her own, Madame Royale bequeathed part of her jewellery collection to her niece and adopted daughter, Louise of France (1819-1864), Duchess of Parma and grand-daughter of Charles X, King of France (1757-1836), who in turn left them to her son, Robert I (1848-1907), the last ruling Duke of Parma.......</p><p><br /></p><p>The collection also features a number of jewels that combine multiple royal provenances, showing how the impressive stones in the family collection were set in different designs throughout the centuries, according to the tastes of each successive generation. Made for Louise of France (1819-1864), grand-daughter of Charles X, King of France and mother of Robert I, Duke of Parma, a breath-taking diamond parure composed of 95 diamonds (est. $300,000-500,000) includes five solitaire diamonds that belonged to Marie-Antoinette, a large number of stones which adorned the sword of the Duke of Berry, son of Charles X and father of Louise (assassinated by an anti-royal Bonapartist in 1820) and a large pear-shaped diamond from the collection of the Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Princess of Croÿ (1856 -1931).......</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the jewels in the collection were given to Robert I (1848-1907), the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza, by his mother, Louise of France (1819-1864), grand-daughter of King Charles X of France and great-niece of Marie Antoinette. Robert I also received exceptional jewels from his paternal grand-mother, Maria-Teresa of Savoy, Duchess of Parma (1803-1879), including a pair of diamond girandole earrings (est. $150,000-250,000). For her wedding to Robert I, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1849-1882) received from her husband&#039;s grand-father, Charles II of Parma a large diamond pendeloque brooch (est. $ 25,000-35,000&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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