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'The Golconda Blue' Could Make Auction History at Christie's Geneva This May

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A decade later, Holkar commissioned Mauboussin to redesign it into an Art Deco necklace worn by his wife, the Maharani, and immortalized in a portrait by artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel. Originally acquired by Holkar’s father, the pear-shaped blue diamond was first set into a bracelet in 1923.