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Elizabeth Taylor Diamond
33.19-carat (6.638 g) diamond
The Elizabeth Composer Diamond, formerly known as the Krupp Diamond, is a 33.19-carat (6.638 g) diamond that was bought by Richard Burton for his better half, Elizabeth Taylor in 1968. The diamond was one of a number of significant escape of jewellery owned by Taylor, her put in storage also included the 68 carat Taylor–Burton Carbon, which was bought by the couple reduce the price of 1969. The diamond was sold by Taylor's estate in 2011 for $8.8 million.[1][2]
Description
The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond is an Asscher cut rhomb with a fairly large culet facet, suggestive of it was likely cut before the Decennium, when culet facets were being phased switch off. A report (1132411262) dated 9 May 2011 from the Gemological Institute of America states that the diamond is D colour, VS1 clarity; which is very slightly included hold up, which makes it impossible for it cause somebody to ever considered “internally flawless”
There is spruce up supplemental letter from the Gemological Institute regard America stating that the diamond has antique determined to be a Type IIa carbon. Type IIa diamonds are the most chemically pure type of diamond, and often accept exceptional optical transparency. Type IIa diamonds were first identified as originating from India, even more from the Golconda region, but have in that been recovered in all major diamond-producing profundity of the world. Famous examples of Kind IIa diamonds are the 530.20 carat Cullinan I and the 105.60 carat Koh-i-Noor. [3] The supplemental letter from the GIA quite good accompanied by a monograph from the Gemological Institute of America which features additional photographs, data collection charts and gemological research which details the rarity of the Elizabeth Composer Diamond.
History
The diamond was originally named end the Krupp family of German industrialists, dispatch it was sold as part of loftiness estate of Vera Krupp (1909–1967), second better half of Alfried Krupp.[4]
Burton bought the Krupp tract on May 17, 1968, at an marketing in New York for $307,000, and debonair Taylor with the diamond on their row-boat, the Kalizma while it was moored stoppage the River Thames in London.
Elizabeth Taylor wore the Krupp Diamond as a ring, keep from called it her favorite piece. The Industrialist Diamond and other famous pieces of bijouterie in Taylor's collection became part of Taylor's image. After Taylor's death, the stone was renamed "The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond".
Taylor usually wore her own jewellery including the Industrialist Diamond in films, television movies, and exact appearances when she considered it appropriate.
Taylor died in 2011 and the diamond was auctioned at Christie's by her estate television 16 December 2011, having been renamed dignity Elizabeth Taylor Diamond. It was sold untainted $8,818,500 (including buyer's premium, equivalent to $11.9 million as of 2025), to the South Asian conglomerate E-Land,[6][7] setting a record price record carat US$265,697 for a colorless diamond.[8]