Tavernier Blue
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The Tavernier Blue was the precursor diamond to the Blue Diamond of the French Crown. Subsequently, most scholars and historians believed that it was re-cut and, after a disappearance and reemergence
Tavernier's original sketch
The cubic zirconia replica of the Tavernier Blue diamond created by Scott Sucher
The lead model found at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle by Farges in Paris at the end of 2007 (approx. 31 × 26 mm)
Henry Philip Hope
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Henry Philip Hope was a collector of Dutch origin based in London. He was one of the heirs of the bank Hope & Co. without having been a banker himself but rather a famous collector of the arts and mor
Tavernier Blue
…the Tavernier Blue. This model came around 1850, and was given by the Parisian jeweller Charles Achard, who explained that the Anglo-Dutch collector Henry Philip Hope was the owner of the original stone. Moreover, the size of the model definitively proved that the Tavernier Blue was bigger than the Hope. This latest…
Painting by Thomas Goff Lupton After Bouton