Royal Jewels

The last Shah of Iran placing the Imperial Empress Crown on the head of Empress Farah of Iran. The throne in the background is not the famed Peacock Throne of Persia, but rather the Naderi Throne. This throne is studded with 26,733 gems encrusted in gold. Standing 225 cm tall, it's a spectacular glittering display of diamonds, emeralds, rubies and other precious gems.


The Pahlavi Crown has 3380 diamonds (totalling 1144 carats), the largest (60 carats) being the central yellow diamond, in the middle of the diamond sunburst. In three different rows there are a total of 369 natural pearls and around the crown there are 5 emeralds (the largest around 100 carats) and some sapphires as well. Many of the elements of the design of the crown were inspired by the crowns of the Sassanian Dynasty crowns of Iran.


The largest of the 3,380 diamonds of the Pahlavi Crown of Iran is a brilliant-cut yellow diamond of 60 cts. which is located in the center of the front jewel sunburst.


Crown - Empress Farah


Tiara - Empress Farah


The imperial coronation sword of the Shah's of Iran -- On display in the glittering vaults of the amazing crown jewels of Iran. The sword is densly studded from one end to the other with a variety of the finest precious gems.


Princess Ashraf Tiara


Princess Fatemeh Tiara
This beautiful Tiara was actually commissioned during the reign of the Qajar Dynasty (1779-1925 A.D.) Princess Fatemeh of the Pahlavi Dynasty, one of the sisters of the last Shah of Iran, favored to wear the tiara on several occasions.

Princess Shahnaz Tiara
Princess Shahnaz of Iran was the oldest daughter of the last Shah of Iran.

Princess Shams Coronation Tiara
This diamond and emerald tiara was worn by the Shah's sister Princess Shams at the coronation.


The Imperial Coronation Belt of Iran

In 1967 Tehran was the scene of one of the most glittering and pompous coronations of the century, as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was crowned to become the "Shahanshah" of Iran. "Shahanshah" is a royal Persian title which has a similar definiton as "emperor" and literally translates to "King of Kings" and dates back some 2500 years ago to the reign of King Cyrus the Great, the first "Shahanshah" of Iran. Queen Farah Diba was on the same day crowned to become "Empress Farah" of Iran, or in Persian; "Shahbaanou" of Iran. Color TV had just made it to the stores, although only the rich could afford it. Corruption, repression and social inequalities led to the Iranian revolution in 1979 which toppled the regime of the Shah, and put an end to the oldest monarchy in the world. Thus a theocracy and the first Islamic Republic in the world was established.


The upper part of the back of the 15 meters long dark-emerald green velvet coronation cape of the former Iranian empress is studded with a spectacular, colorful and sparkling array of the most precious diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls which make up a beatiful pattern of Persian paisley.
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15 meter long, diamont-studded dark emerald-green velvet. The entire cape is studded with an array of precious gems, mostly diamonds but also emeralds, rubies and the finest pearls. The same kind of precious gems also make up the embroidered Persian paisley pattern running along the sides and on the upper part of the back. It's impossible to describe the incredible and sparkling beauty of this piece of the Iranian crown jewels. You really have to see it in person to to fully appreciate it.




His title "Shahanshah Arya-Mehr" means "King of Kings, Light of the Aryans" - The name "IRAN" literally means "Aryan" and derives from the ancient Persian word "Aeer" which means "Noble" - "Aeeran" later became "Iran" - And in ancient times the land was called "Iran-Shahr" meaning "The land of the Aryans." In the 1800's, Comte Joseph De Gobineau, Frances Charge daffaires at the Imperial court of Iran, came into contact with the term "Aryan" and later wrote his racialist books, in which he related the Europeans to the ancient Aryans. His books inspired Europe's newly formed fascist movements who cooked up their own "theories" using the term "Aryan". "Iran" has been the name of Iran in the Persian language for thousands of years. "Persia" was the name that Westerners and many foreigners used for Iran.




Empress Farah of Iran


Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran


Imperial coat of arms
The Imperial coat of arms of the Pahlavi dynasty, the last Imperial dynasty of Iran, hand painted on a plate made of the finest china.stamble();

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Qujar & Afsharid & Safavid Jewels




The Nader Throne, studded with 26,733 precious gems, and the jewel-studded globe with some 51,000 of the finest rubies, emeralds and diamonds. Both pieces are part of the stunning crown jewels of Iran - the world's by far largest, most valuable and dazzling jewel collection.


This aigrette crowning the crown of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, can be dismantled and replaced with others.


This crown had been made for Crown Prince Abbas Mirza of the Qajar Dynasty which ruled Iran from 1779 AD - 1925 AD). Known as the "Persian Prince Valiant", this youngest son of Fath Ali Shah, Crown Prince of Persia and governor of Azarbaijan Province of Iran, was a brave and heroic warrior. He allied himself with Napoleon Bonaparte and fought wars on two fronts - One against Russia, and the other against the Ottoman empire. The wars against Russia ended with that Iran lost its northern territories of Armenia, Georgia and Aran (Called "Azerbaijan Republic" today). In 1833,While seeking to secure the borders of Khorasan province, which borders Afghanistan, he died.


This is one of several Iranian thrones that have existed during the last several centuries.During the reign of Fathali Shah and by his order, a great throne was made under the supervision of Nezamoldoleh Mohammad Hossein Khan Sadr Isfahani, the governor of Isfahan, using gold and loose stones from the treasury. As a motif of the sun, encrusted with jewels, was used on the top of the throne, it became known as the Sun Throne. The throne was later called the Peacock Throne, after Fathali Shah's marriage to Tavous Khanoum Tajodoleh who was known as Lady Peacock because her first name, Tavous, is the Persian word for a peacock.

Up til 1980 the Sun Throne was on display at the Golestan Palace. In 1980 it was decided to move it to the vaults of the Iranian Crown Jewels at Iran's Central Bank where it is now on display.

Nader Shah's jewel-studded shield

European explorers and travellers who visited the imperial court of Iran (Persia) in the 16th and 17th century have recorded how startled and amazed they were at the site of all the jewels. They described how not only the clothes of all the royals and their courtiers were richly and densly studded with precious pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and safires, but also virtually all the dishes that they ate and drank from. One of these European visitors also described in detail how incredibly splendid it all was - the whole experience of the glittering jewels, massive chandelliers, the finest Persian carpets and the intriquate ornamental Persian art of the palace interior - it simply was overwhelming to the senses...



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The Nader Aigrette - Diamonds and emeralds Weighing 781 carats in all, and standing 13 cm high (Approx. 6") And was worn by Nader shah (1688-1747 A.D.) on the front of his Persian-style hat.


This Persian beautifully enameled chest from the time of the Qajar dynasty, overflowing with the finest and most precious pearls and gems, is displayed in the vaults of the Iranian Crown Jewels - The biggest and most valuable collection of jewels in the world.




The globe stands 110 cm high (44") and has a diameter of 45 cm. (18 inches) and is covered with over 51 thousand gemstones. The seas and oceans are shown with emeralds. Land masses are mostly displayed in rubies and spinels. Iran, Britain, France, and parts of South Asia are shown in diamonds. Approximately 35 kilograms (75 pounds) of pure gold is used in the globe.

The Crown Jewels of Iran are by far the largest and most dazzling jewel collection in the world. Not even the British crown jewels can come enything close to it's size and magnificence. So valuable is the collection that it backs the Iranian national currency as a reserve.

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Holy Moly..........Shah had some real Bling Bling going on back then......Jesus Christ, those jewels are amazing!

 I wish I had them

Empress Farah was beautiful! Those jewels are gorgeous!

first wife of Shah Pahlavi (I hope I wrote name right) was I think Surayya, she was half German, gorgeous lady

Fozieh


Soraya


Farah


Queen Farah & Crown prince Reza


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amazing pictures!

man, one day britain better give back everything it has stolen from Iran, as well as other countries! and if they dont then iran should do everything it can, at all costs to get them back.

anyway, how much is the collection worth?  its the richest in the world.