Guy Trebay, writes on ‘Emeralds almost the size of Popsicles, ropes of the rarest natural pearls and rani haar pieces studded with diamonds were throwbacks to the time of maharajahs.’ in The New York Times
An excerpt:
“It was almost like the time of maharajahs 100 years down the line,” said Pramod Kumar, an archivist and a founder of the museum consultancy EKA. He is also keeper of topophilia.india, an erudite Instagram account that is catnip for Indophile aesthetes.
Mr. Kumar’s sleuth work traced a possible source of the two most gobsmacking gems seen at the Ambani prewedding celebration: massive step-cut Colombian emeralds roughly the size of Popsicles. Draped one below the other as pendants to a diamond necklace, they were worn one evening by the bridegroom’s mother, Nita Ambani. The bigger one was “of 562 carats,” Mr. Kumar wrote in an Instagram post, adding that the weight of the smaller stone was a mere 303 carats.