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This Art Deco brooch features natural emeralds and diamonds set in platinum. Available from EraGem.

Olivia Wilde’s gold, diamond, and emerald halo style vintage engagement ring is still one of my favorite engagement rings.
“All they know is that it went through Paris around 1921,” Olivia told Brides. “I love imagining the story of this ring. Who had it? It’s a bit of an aqua emerald, not a deep dark green. Jason (Sudeikis) said it reminded him of my eyes, which is very sweet.”

Jardin: the French word for ‘garden’. This term is often used in the Gemstone trade to romantically describe mossy or garden looking inclusions that are commonly found in emeralds.

A 1935 Mauboussin platinum, emerald and diamond pendant-brooch. Sold at auction in 2013.
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The Maximilian Emerald is a 21.04-carat Colombian emerald. It was once set in a ring worn by Mexico’s doomed emperor, Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph. Ferdinand was an Austrian archduke who was crowned emperor of Mexico in 1864. Three years later he was executed during an uprising.
The emerald is currently seated in a platinum setting by Cartief, flanked by baguette-cut diamonds.
The ring was donated to the Smithsonian by Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post 1964. Marjorie Merriweather Post was heiress to the Post cereal fortune and a collector of French and Russian art. This ring is one of several major donations she generously gifted to the National Gem Collection. The Maximilian Emerald Ring is on display in the Gem Gallery at the National Museum of Natural History.

For centuries the wives of Iranian monarchs were not crowned, only the male ruler had that honor. This changed with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In a nod to the White Revolution’s mandate on the emancipation of women Emperor Pahlavi was determined to also have his consort crowned. There was a slight problem though. Since it had been centuries since an Iranian empress had been crowned there was no appropriate crown available. The honorable task of making the new crown would fall to Van Cleef and Arpels. As was dictated by tradition the gems used in the crown and coronation jewelry were selected from loose stones already in the Imperial treasury. None of the items that are a part of the Imperial treasury were allowed to leave the Iran so Van Cleef & Arpels had to send a team of jewelers to Tehran in order to construct the crown. While there the team Farah and other important people in the Iranian government were consulted on the design aspects so that the finished product would be perfect. The crown ended up taking six months to complete.

The crown itself is made out of out of white gold and green velvet that is covered with diamonds, pearls, emeralds, rubies, and spinels. The crown is part of the collection held at the Central Bank in Tehran.