The colors used remind me of ancient Egypt with the lapis lazuli, gold and coral color. Thank you for sharing this rare find. Absolutely stunning!
@michaelbrownlee94973 жыл бұрын
Egypt was being studied and was a popular subject for academic inquiry. Napoleans army occupied the area, and a artifact called the rosetta stone was discovered in a pile of building debris. Greek stories were treated as myths, fanciful tales, with no basis in reality. Then they discovered Troy. So yes, josephines jewelery would reflect the french peoples interest and paid homage to there ancestors.
@andyroo93813 жыл бұрын
We are all so lucky to be able to see these treasures up close. Thank you for this display.
@basiliskos1193 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of the most elegant and beautiful sets of jewelry ever made. Saying that woman had impecable taste is an understatement. Her Malmaison castle is one of the most tastefully decorated houses in History..
@labelmeposh2 жыл бұрын
Wow really!?
@WondrousEarth3 жыл бұрын
Remarkable craftsmanship, truly beautiful. As the narrator says, we can only imagine how much time went into creating these masterpieces.
@jenniferlawrence94733 жыл бұрын
It kind of looks like plastic. lol
@annonymous1273 Жыл бұрын
jenniferlawrence9473 you’re obviously experienced in plastic jewellery made in China. Good for you
@IrishAnnie3 жыл бұрын
I went o the V&A museum two years ago and the jewelry there knocked my socks off. Broaches, tiaras, necklaces and swords adorned with so many beautiful jewels….there was an especially gorgeous necklace made with enameled “bows”. Everything was stunning. I
@TaylorJohnson13 жыл бұрын
No matter our race, class or religion, there is no doubt that our human ancestors have done incredible works of art. I love humanity.
@marlene972802 жыл бұрын
Based on slavery
@annonymous1273 Жыл бұрын
marleney5306 age of global expansion slavery happened to all races throughout humanities history, even the ancient Jews of the Bible had slaves. And slavery still happens in Islamic countries etc today
@ah791010 ай бұрын
Marlene, I feel so sorry for you. I understand that you are angry and unhappy in your life but READ and LEARN and STUDY, or is it easier just to lash out?
@SoCalDreamer913 жыл бұрын
Love intaglios and cameos and seeing them incorporated so beautifully into these incredible pieces of jewlery is just breathtaking
@yvettemarshallTWN3 жыл бұрын
😍 Ohmygosh. 🤩 Emperor Napoleon’s BELOVED first wife, a widow, was much older than him. She lost her first husband to the guillotine (and nearly her own head, too!). She could have no more children so the Emperor reluctantly divorced her to get an heir, but he never stopped honoring, writing to, and loving her. The man was a bit obsessed, to be honest! Also, her given name was Rose 🌹(Napoleon christened her Josephine, a more lofty moniker fit for his Empress). 🪄👑
@claudiocavaliere8563 жыл бұрын
Absolutely breathtaking! Enchanting in every possible way! Congratulations!
@geigertec59213 жыл бұрын
How dare they equate a monetary price to these priceless artifacts at the end, completely uncalled for. This collection belongs to the people of Europe.
@TinyEpics3 жыл бұрын
That cameo of MEDUSA is absolutely stunning 😍 Recently made a Medusa video so her tragic story has been on my mind.
@jeogle46573 жыл бұрын
She was a lady with style that had many fine objects to surround herself with. Old jewelry has always fascinated me because of the beautiful workmanship involved. Thank you for posting.
@veryfrozen32713 жыл бұрын
By style you mean money
@jeogle46573 жыл бұрын
@@veryfrozen3271 not necessarily. She was a minor figure until marrying up. Her style and how she did things helped to attract her first husband, but her marriage was arranged and he was embarrassed by her low birth. She had weekly pedicures when it was not a common practice, but she had bad teeth and apparently smelled like a strong odorous cheese. She had a flair for fashion, though. Of course, having money did help her obtain her clothing and beautiful jewelry.
@sjwilloughby-greene821411 ай бұрын
Magnificent collection. Thank you for sharing. ❤
@englishrose43883 жыл бұрын
Stunning. So sad that they’re being sold and not staying in a museum.
@user-rv9um5xc3r3 жыл бұрын
Why?
@madamadadane79893 жыл бұрын
@@user-rv9um5xc3r personally I like that in a museum other people will learn the history and context of the piece meanwhile if it were to be locked away in someone's personal showroom. Just better for academic expertise than collective purposees
@user-rv9um5xc3r3 жыл бұрын
@@madamadadane7989 being sold to a private buyer doesn´t mean it will be locked away in someone´s personal showroom. Museums exhibit a lot of private items. And even if this was a case of "personal showrom" or even a safe, the marginal benefit from two tiaras being exhibited to the public isn´t bigger than the millions in trade they acumulated througout their history.
@cloisterene3 жыл бұрын
So is the Victoria and Albert museum selling these now?
@N.Eutered3 жыл бұрын
Just in time for Christmas ❤️
@skeewaux49873 жыл бұрын
The remanded of the Bonaparte treasure is located somewhere in Louisiana after Jean Lafitte brought back the treasure from Spain, but failed to rescue Napoleon. I believe it to be just south of lake Charles, or in between lake Charles and cat island........ priceless artifacts!!!!
@donifinch90793 жыл бұрын
Impressive. The intaglios. Portraits are beautiful.
@californiatimes13 жыл бұрын
Its so beautiful it makes me cry!!!
@tato33uk3 жыл бұрын
Little did she know that Medusa would become the emblem of House Versace.
@TinyEpics3 жыл бұрын
Medusa was the emblem of the Greek goddess Athena a couple thousand years before Versace used it. She literally wears it on her breastplate in most depictions. Certainly Josephine would have been aware of this 😊
@joaocarlosmelonunes61069 ай бұрын
❤@@TinyEpics
@oltedders3 жыл бұрын
Why are these being sold off?
@ahogbin26443 жыл бұрын
‘Permanent loan’ obviously means nothing these days?
@Lommy99993 жыл бұрын
Excellent question.
@tanitamaurer3 жыл бұрын
It belongs to a museum.
@senguptasayn3 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. Thanks for the upload.
@Trashencash3 жыл бұрын
As a fanatic or gold I never seen something more beautiful
@889977993 жыл бұрын
Rick Pawn Stars: ” i’ll give you $20 bucks and that’s taking a risk” Absolutely no proof I am unethical and greedy exists on film…. Rick Harrison
@kittycat331553 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 💓 I wish I could bid on them 😭
@erikacorette71373 жыл бұрын
The intaglio stones are not referenced as to their specific nature. Are these agate? Inquiring minds are curious.
This is why it is so important that treasures from metal detection, mudlarking as well as archaeological sites are reported and logged with Antiquities. If the intaglio/cameo in these pieces Are ancient Roman they had to have been dug up somewhere in Europe and sold to the highest bidder. In a private collection they're lost to the world but here in the museum they Belong to the world.
@kevinnapier89963 жыл бұрын
#Amazing #Fashion #History!! #ThankYou for #Sharing!!
@classicontario17763 жыл бұрын
They were given to the museum are you selling them?
@monadotson7413 жыл бұрын
Absolutely breathtaking beautiful
@IGlowIFlow3 жыл бұрын
So gorgeous, I’m named after her 🌸
@EleanorCharlotte88553 жыл бұрын
Is the chained roundel with cameo design a sort of Versace style?
@arlettehellemans21173 жыл бұрын
I am so happy I have some beautiful cameo's
@veronicasmyth38303 жыл бұрын
I kept craving carved gem Stones....This is Gorgeous.
@k_a37853 жыл бұрын
I thought at first that it’s some Versace Jewellery or something 😅
@SkyeRangerNick10 ай бұрын
The more I see of these sorts of works of art, the more I marvel and the more I am curious regarding the makers. Do we have well documented information regarding the artists, goldsmiths, carvers, and so on? I see people do some of this work today with high tech equipment. But, countless centuries ago, what must have the studios and craft centers looked like? In the news these days are looted Scythian gold works. Also a marvel. I am curious about their craft centers and masters of the crafts and arts.
@gmr2gnr3 жыл бұрын
Just bought one 👌
@JACOBJMCNAUGHTON3 жыл бұрын
so beautiful… wow!
@simonphoenix37893 жыл бұрын
how on earth did they make these before power tools existed? How do you carve such fine features into a rock? that looks like Chalcedony, which is a pretty hard rock to cut. nowadays you could do it with a dremel, but its hard to imagine doing that with some sort of primitive sandpaper.
@Lommy99993 жыл бұрын
So she wore Versace?
@dittedatte80463 жыл бұрын
😄😄😄
@Lotdesasnowden03 жыл бұрын
Wow lovely indeed💜
@AngelasMixedMediaArtist3 жыл бұрын
Wow 🤩 amazing
@KarensOpinionsMayDiffer2 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous!
@LetGoofEverythingNow3 жыл бұрын
Incredible.
@tseamus82883 жыл бұрын
Yes, Phenomenal. Just wow!
@pumpkindiamond9943 жыл бұрын
Impressive! 👏👍
@callmemrbombastic19033 жыл бұрын
So essentially this woman had the first Versace piece! Or should I say this is where he got his inspiration from.
@tonylarussa40463 жыл бұрын
They should be in the Louvre not the V&A.
@bravo795mp3 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure they were sold
@hanawana3 жыл бұрын
beautiful
@ColonelMichaelOrgan3 жыл бұрын
Superb.
@avalanche90269 ай бұрын
Can’t imagine the value ? Of those pieces ??
@d.b.11763 жыл бұрын
Looks brand new.
@hanawana3 жыл бұрын
i shall have to see these at the v&a
@thyslop17373 жыл бұрын
Stunning, statement jewelry.
@cliftonbowers637611 ай бұрын
Seen in Katherine the Great as well have held in my own hands too..😮
@cliftonbowers637611 ай бұрын
Thank you ..😮😊
@abnnuzzinicholasclay6863 жыл бұрын
Amazing i like cameos
@tubelator3 жыл бұрын
Survived 200years. Amazing.
@bennett11993 жыл бұрын
Joséphine Bonaparte : for one second, i was asking myself who she was. She is called, she was called Joséphine de Beauharnais.
@識袋3 жыл бұрын
Is so gorgeours 🤩🤩🤩 beautifulllllllll
@botacct65223 жыл бұрын
I have about 300lbs. Of those glistening stones. They certainly are amazing!
@Daihatsu_Hijet3 жыл бұрын
Wow 🤩
@davidcaldecoat74143 жыл бұрын
WOW amazing
@patr9783 жыл бұрын
Josephine been wearing Versace jewelries
@archangelmichael7063 жыл бұрын
Sold.
@scarlettmorgan29383 жыл бұрын
Empress Josephine’s treasures should be purchased by the Napoleonic musée national; then put on permanent display within Chateau de Malmaison.
@vivek-13183 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@reggieboyd35013 жыл бұрын
Now I know how Versace got his style of design
@osvaldoarellano75423 жыл бұрын
Thought it was live rosin
@Nathan-ed2jx3 жыл бұрын
So mesmerizing, I had to puaso so I could stare
@marlenemcmillan88913 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to.see
@stevenbriggs7843 жыл бұрын
the monitary "value" is almost insulting. these are invaluable pieces of history, i cannot phathom them being lost to the world.
@ananyadas20423 жыл бұрын
2:24 why does this look like Versace?!😆
@romeoroyce1873 жыл бұрын
Appraiser : it's in the $5mill dollar range at the rite auction Rick : best I could do is $50 bucks an a smile ... I gotta get it framed , it takes up space an it will sit for a while
@fleurmcdonald1392 Жыл бұрын
❤superb
@island6613 жыл бұрын
I want!
@carls.100010 ай бұрын
She was the first one on her block to own a Versace bracelet! LOL
@shelleyharris28503 жыл бұрын
That burnt orange
@jimverdalupan95103 жыл бұрын
wow
@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un3 жыл бұрын
I would think this would go for millions, not mere hundreds of thousands
@정길주-w9p3 жыл бұрын
멋찝니다~~~~
@jags.33893 жыл бұрын
In this life, there’s no balance. Imagine being a part of this classical era and wearing the most rare antiquities of the world today back then, yet no photography to vividly capture them only paintings which doesn’t do as much visual justice as photography. Just goes to proves that no human civilization ever had it all. The golden age or era characterized by class, never had photography and the so called modern age of today doesn’t have class.
@looking80303 жыл бұрын
Wow
@kitrichardson21653 жыл бұрын
Honestly the prices seem low
@simongreenham3 жыл бұрын
They should be in Paris, I hope at least they remain in Europe...
@letBIGGIErest3 жыл бұрын
The Medusa piece looks like something made by Versace
@alanoffer3 жыл бұрын
Permanent loan ,,,,now being sold? These belong in the Louvre not in the bank vault of the rich
@nickpalm68233 жыл бұрын
This Medusa is so familiar…
@juriaanoussoren3 жыл бұрын
Versace !
@edwinlu1233 жыл бұрын
these stuff can have a look of resins these days
@zevan614710 ай бұрын
💡
@randallrohr6233 жыл бұрын
Those estimates seem really cheap to me. It’s crazy that rappers will spend hundreds of thousands on icing out a Rolex that decreases its value when they can literally be buying stuff like this instead.
@kakasumi35503 жыл бұрын
Permanent loan? Is that a new word for “stolen”?
@angelabender81323 жыл бұрын
The irony of it all Marie Antoinette was killed also because of her fashionista excesses Josephine took her place and she was in a radically different stylistic way, another female obsessed by glamour and opulence
@ragemodels3 жыл бұрын
Exactly : All of these Jewelry are smeared with the blood of the poor while the aristocracy lived off them like Parasites !!!Whoever is selling them now will praise it to the skies telling everyone "How rare they are " without mentioning How cursed they actually are !!! Don't forget a second what happend to Napolean at the end.
@Liitebulb3 жыл бұрын
Male and female people are obsessed with opulence because it reminds them how far they've come. And that's not why they hated MA. They just hated her anyway
@katalinjuhasz64110 ай бұрын
NEM Ö.... NAPOLEON SZEREZTE ITÁLIAI HADJÁRATAIN NEKI VOLT KIVÁLÓ CSODÁLATOS ÉRZÉKE ÉS STILUSA OKORI KINCSEKHEZ, NEM JOZEFIN. AMI MÉLTATLAN HOGY PIACON ADJÁK EL
@mazharakhter35883 жыл бұрын
This is so Versace
@salvas737610 ай бұрын
I would not believe this. I got scammed with a Martha Stewart add like this one!!!! They stold $180
@martin-fc4kk3 жыл бұрын
So "some" of the stones "might" be antique? hmm..
@shotgunbettygaming3 жыл бұрын
Half a million-ish? That's all? I'm stunned they aren't valued at more.
@katalinjuhasz64110 ай бұрын
EMIREK MEGVESZNEK MINDEN EUROPAI KINCSET, ROHADTAK...