Auction in Switzerland: real jewels and Kobe Bryant shoes
A diamond bracelet that belonged to Queen María Antonieta de France, a gold, silver and diamonds that were from Princess Pauline Borghese and a couple of shoes that used the late star of the NBA Kobe Bryant are among the objects that are among the objects that areThey will auction next week in Geneva.
It is estimated that the Nike Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 in blue, white and gold will be sold for about 35.000 Swiss francs (38.000 dollars) at an auction on November 11 in Sotheby’s.Bryant used them on March 17, 2004 in a match in which his Lakers beat the Los Angeles clippers, according to the auctioneer house.
As always happens at the Autumn Auctions in Geneva, the stars of the auctions of Sotheby’s and their rival Christie’s will be diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies and other stones.
Christie’s will offer a couple of thick eighteenth century bracelets on Tuesday with three rows of diamonds.It presents them as one of the last vestiges of the rich collection of jewels of María Antonieta that are still on sale.
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The auctioning house said that the famous wife of King Louis XVI personally wrapped her jewels in cotton with the hope of taking them from revolutionary France, which ended up executing her in the guillotine.The bracelets, a commission from 1776, remained in the hands of the real lineage for more than 200 years, according to Christie’s.
"Despite the capture of María Antonieta in the French Revolution and her unfortunate death in 1793, the bracelets survived and passed her daughter, Madame Royale and then to the Duchess of Parma," said Max Fawcett, head of the jewelry department ofChristie's, in reference respectively to María Teresa de France, daughter of the royal couple and Princess Luisa de Artois, dead in 1864.
"Seeing them auction today is a unique opportunity for the world's collectors to have a piece of French real history," Fawcett said.
It is estimated that they will be sold for about 4 million Swiss francs (4.38 million dollars).Each weighs 97 grams and include diamonds with old cut, silver and gold.
