If you love jewels, marrying Emperor Napoleon had several advantages. Marie - Louise - Diadem, now part of the Smithsonian Collection, is a wedding gift from Napoleon I to the second wife Empress Marie - Louise in 1810. Dyadem originally had necklaces, combs, belt buckles, earrings, In a set that contains all emerald and diamond silver and gold sets they were all made by French jeweler at Etienne Nitot et al Fils in Paris.
The original diadem had 22 large emeralds and 57 small emeralds, with 1002 brilliant cuts and 66 rose cut diamonds. The central emerald weighs 12 carats. After the collapse of the emperor, Marie - Louise is a girlfriend who escaped to Vienna, including dyadems and other works made as part of a set of necklaces, earrings, combs
Empress Mary - Louise left her crown in her Hapsburg aunt, Grand Duke Elise. The Swedish Grand Duke Carl - Stephen - Hapsburg, the offspring of the Grand Duke sold the set to Van Cleef & Arpels in 1953. During the month between 1954 and June 1956, Emerald was individually removed and sold as a gemstone piece as an emerald from "Historic Napoleon * Tiara."
Between 1956 and 1962, Van Cleef & Arpels attached a turquoise cabochon to the dyadem. In 1962, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, exhibits on Empress Mary - Louise, necklaces, earrings and combs were exhibited. In 1971, heirs to Marjorie Meriwether Post, Post Grain Fortune, bought a crown for Smithsonian institution. The 1,006 mining cut diamond has a Persian turquoise 540 weighing a total of 700 carats and a total of 79 carats. It is a shame in some respects that the original work was dismantled to sell the emerald. However, reset by turquoise cabochon diadem is also made more unique, using beautiful, less valuable turquoise as well.
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