Let them eat pearls - royal jewellery for sale

Jewellery owned by Marie Antoinette is set to hit the auction block later this year Image courtesy: Sotheby's Jewellery owned by Marie Antoinette is set to hit the auction block later this year Image courtesy: Sotheby's Let them eat pearls - royal jewellery for sale Jewellery once owned by the famous Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, will be up for auction through Sotheby’s in November Entitled Royal Jewels from the Bourbon-Parma Family, the auction will span centuries of European history, including the reign of King Louis XVI and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Sotheby’s considers the collection owned by Marie Antoinette to be one of the “most important jewellery collections to ever appear on the market” “Each and every jewel is absolutely imbued with history.

Never before seen in public, this extraordinary group of jewels offers a captivating insight into the lives of its owners going back hundreds of years,” Sotheby’s deputy chairman Daniela Mascetti . Source