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Article: Briolettes Add Dimension to Design.
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- Jewelers Circular Keystone
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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By Kristina McKenna, Editorial Intern
Wholesalers and designers find new ways to promote the ancient diamond briolette and rondelle cuts.
For centuries, diamond briolettes and faceted diamond beads were used in some of the world's most famous jewelry. Some historians believe the briolette cut originated in India. The Crown Jewels of Iran include numerous briolettes. Briolettes were part of the tiara worn by the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia at her 1894 wedding to the Grand Duke Alexander Mihailovich of Russia. And a diamond briolette necklace given in 1811 by French Emperor Napoleon I to his second wife, Empress Marie Louise, is now in the ...
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... ... 34-carat pink quartz and diamond earrings ($2,500), at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC, 800-558-1855. FRED LEIGHTON diamond briolette drops ($22,500). at Fred Leighton, NYC, 212-288-1872. BUCCELLATI Tahitian-pearl and diamond drops ($169 ...
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