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...Victoria Beckham silk cami dress, £1,390 Dina Kamal polished raw white-gold and diamond Fan earrings, brushed raw white-gold and diamond chain, brushed raw white-gold and natural diamond Quadrant ring,...
...Sotheby’s also showed “Queen Victoria” by another court favourite, George Hayter....
...This is inspired by Diana’s ring and traces its history to a cluster design that Prince Albert commissioned from Garrard for Queen Victoria. It is worn regularly by the Queen....
...Precious pieces that have washed up here, either on their way to be displayed in the museum or before they head off on tour to other institutions or back home to their owners, have included a diamond and sapphire...
...“It was about then that heat treatment was becoming common for sapphires and rubies [to enhance the colour],” he recalls. “I felt I could no longer be responsible with clients.”...
...Her diamond and sapphire earrings, which belonged to Diana, were a reminder that the Firm is a family too. Her Saturday ensembles were a pair of repeats too, but together sent their own signal....
...“The era was awash with Indian fabrics and influence from India,” says Avalon Fotheringham, a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and a specialist in Indian textiles....
...In west Wales, Ami Pepper’s 9ct-gold interpretations of the Pembrokeshire coast are cast with sapphires, encased so that they cling to rings and pendants encrusted with barnacles or nestle among seaweed-cluster...
...Today, Victoria Strigini, a London jeweller, has one of these gems dating to the 2nd or 3rd century, which she has reset in a simple gold ring....
...A selection of such regal eggs will go on display in November in an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London....
...Then there are the 7m visitors a year to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), where a 1910 sapphire necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany is on display....
...Victoria Wirth Reynolds, Tiffany’s chief gemologist and vice president of global merchandising for high jewellery, says that while nature has always been a major source of inspiration, they set out to do...
...With malls as passé as buxom supermodels trussed up in sapphire-studded bras, Victoria’s Secret is on the wrong side of history. High time for Mr Wexner to call it a day....
...And all the while, a turquoise, sapphire and rock-crystal Evil Eye Bee Goddess ring perches on my little finger, to ward off the bad and make me feel safe on the move....
...An eye for aesthetics is in Victoria Tang’s blood....
...This is most notable when Kelly recreates a next-generation version of the christening gown of Queen Victoria’s children....
...Instead, it chose to partner with Hamilton & Inches, and under the leadership of the jeweller’s chief executive, Victoria Houghton, Hamilton & Inches’ small in-house team of craftsmen, designers, engravers...
...The exhibition opens with the cobalt blue “Sapphire Star” on the grassy slope below the Temple of Bellona near Victoria Gate....
...Embroidery in the home The Royal School of Needlework was founded in 1872 by Lady Victoria Welby....
...“The few gem-quality natural coloured sapphires discovered each year are in their early stage of recognition.”...
...Queen Victoria appointed the house crown jeweller in 1843 but it lost this role in 2007....
...On display will be items from its archive and borrowed from the Louvre, the Palace of Fontainebleau and the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...They are gold with small square sapphires. I love vintage cufflinks. vancleefarpels.com An object I would never part with is a 1930s chair by the late French decorator Emilio Terry....
...slavery in the West Indies in 1761 but freed by her aristocratic father and raised in London by his family — and to Sarah Forbes Bonetta, who was presented as a “gift” by west African royalty to Queen Victoria...
...The cruise ship Saga Sapphire was out of action for 63 days between April and June, taking a chunk out of sales and trading profit for the travel business....
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