Important Golconda Diamonds on Display in ‘Dynastic Jewels’

The Dynastic Jewels exhibition includes jewels lent by the Louvre, His Majesty King Charles III, the Duke of Fife, Cartier, and Chaumet, to illustrate the relationship between precious stones and status – how, for centuries, jewels set with precious stones have exemplified both power and prestige, furthermore, as displays of passion.

The exhibition begins with two exceptional Golconda diamonds: the 57.31-carat Star of Golconda and the 90.38-carat Briolette of India. In 2011, Cartier created a magnificent Indian inspired bib necklace, Le Collier de Perles du Maharajah: three strands of 116 pearls interspersed with 25 large, round, brilliant diamonds, with the spectacular Star of Golconda suspended from a line of six similar stones. 

Here, however, we have the Star displayed alone, which only emphasises the extraordinary yet simple beauty of an enormous natural diamond.