{"id":61968,"date":"2018-11-15T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61968"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:05:03","slug":"ex-french-queens-necklace-sets-auction-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ex-french-queens-necklace-sets-auction-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-French queen&#8217;s necklace sets auction record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A pearl and diamond pendant of former French Queen Marie Antoinette&#8217;s sold for 32 million Swiss Francs ($31.8 million) during an auction in Geneva late Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>An anonymous buyer purchased the necklace.<\/p>\n<p>The pendant was part of a major jewel of the the last queen of France.<\/p>\n<p>Sotheby&#8217;s auction house international jewelry chief David Bennett said the sale set a new \u201cworld record\u201d in royal jewelry sales in an auction.<\/p>\n<p>A senior executive of Sotheby&#8217;s auction house, Daniela Mascetti, told Anadolu Agency it was an excellent sale since there has not been any pearl necklaces sold for such an high price and it was a sale of the century for a jewel like this one.<\/p>\n<p>Married to French King Louis the 16th, Antoinette is regarded as an ill-fated queen as she was guillotined in Paris at the age of 37 during the French Revolution.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pearl and diamond pendant of former French Queen Marie Antoinette&#8217;s sold for 32 million Swiss Francs ($31.8 million) during an auction in Geneva late Wednesday. An anonymous buyer purchased the necklace. The pendant was part of a major jewel of the the last queen of France. Sotheby&#8217;s auction house international jewelry chief David Bennett &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,1,118,895,79,85,103,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-general","category-hot","category-life","category-magazine","category-media-news","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}