Grand Jewelled Vert - Earrings History The most important and mystical

The most important and mystical of these stones is St Edward's Sapphire

It is a fabulously decorative piece for dedicated romantics

He began his career as a scene painter in Paris but his real love was flower painting

and this tiepin is based on a 19th century English piqué pin in tortoiseshell

Grand Jewelled Vert - Earrings History The most important and mysticalGrand Jewelled Vert Earrings: Inspired from the original emerald and diamonds necklace and earrings parure which was made in 1806 by Nitot & Fils, the French crown jewellers and given by Napoleon and Josephine to their adopted daughter Stephanie de Beauharnais on her marriage to the heir of the Grand Duke of Baden.