Important Fancy Light Pink diamond ring

Claw-set with a fancy light pink cut-cornered rectangular-cut diamond weighing 6.26 carats, between baguette diamond shoulders, mounted in rose and white gold,

For further information on the Hortensia diamond, please see Ian Balfour, Famous Diamonds, Collins, 1987, p. 59.

Stamped 750 for gold. Please refer to report for details on the diamond. Baguette diamonds estimated to weigh approximately 0.35 carats in total. In very good condition.
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Natural coloured pink diamonds are extremely rare, and of the world's most famous diamonds, only a few are pink. One example is a 21.00 carat pentagonal-shaped pale pink stone, purchased by King Louis XIX in 1678, therefore becoming one of the French Crown jewels. It was stolen from the Garde Meuble in 1792, a few years after the French Revolution, but was eventually recovered. It was then named the "Hortensia", after the step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, Hortense de Beauharnais, then the Queen of Holland. The Musée de Louvre stopped the sale of the diamond just before the Crown Jewels were auctioned off in 1887. It is currently on display in the Louvre's Gallerie d'Apollon.