Designed as one long strand of natural pearls, between rondelles accented with single-cut diamonds, embellished at various intervals with circular-cut emerald-set spheres, suspending a tassel incorporating a 19th Century-cut 114.63 carat vivid yellow diamond, and a Colombian emerald drop, signed JAR Paris, 2017, together with JAR Paris presentation box.
Accompanied by a GIA monograph detailing the characteristics and importance of the main diamond and an SSEF certificate stating that the drop-shaped briolette emerald weighing 4.61 carats is of Colombian origin and has minor amount of oil in fissures.

Provenance

Diamond Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Countess Rosario Zouboff Aquired at Christies’s London in 1962 on the occasion of the auction ‘The Property of the Countess Rosario Zouboff’ Private Collection The Countess (1892-1984) was born in Argentina to a very wealthy Prussian father and Argentinian mother. She travelled frequently to Europe, spending a lot of time in Geneva. She first married the Count Arrivabene (Italian Ambassador in Iran) in 1914, then remarried in 1922 (in Geneva) with the Count Serge Platonovitch Zoubov (1881-1964)

Literature

Cf: Ian Balfour, Famous Diamonds, Antique Collectors’ Club 2009, page 321 ‘The World’s Largest Cut Diamonds’ table where the diamond is mentioned (both under 114.63cts and 114.03cts as it was miscataloged in 1962)