+4:3 Early look at Liz Taylor''s jewels due to be auctioned

Описание: (7 Sep 2011) SHOTLIST
FILE: London, UK - 24 May 2000
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1. Elizabeth Taylor arriving on red carpet for event at which she was honoured with British Film Industry Lifetime Achievement Award
2. Close of Taylor''s jewellery
New York, USA - 6 September 2011
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3. Wide collection of jewellery
4. Close up of tiara
5. Wide shot of jewellery collection
6. Rack focus of tiara, given to Taylor by Mike Todd
7. Wide of Rahul Kadakia, head of Christie''s jewellery department, arranging the collection
8. Medium shot of necklaces including the La Peregrina pearl necklace
9. Close up of Bulgari emerald bracelet
10. Close up of the Taj Mahal diamond
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rahul Kadakia, head of Christie''s jewellery department:
"We''ve priced the collection at 30 (m) million dollars as a whole. What it is going to make, well this we''ll know when it''s December. The magic of Elizabeth Taylor will speak that evening and the days after, and that''s when we will really know what the collection is worth, and what the appeal of one of the greatest human beings who has lived is worth."
12. Tight diamond bracelet
13. Medium group shot of jewellery
14. Elizabeth Taylor diamond being modelled on hand (33 carat - purchased in 1969 at auction for 300-thousand dollars)
15. Wide collection of jewellery
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rahul Kadakia, head of Christie''s jewellery department:
"She really loved all of this jewellery. It was a way of life for her. Jewellery was her. And she looked at everything every day, and she decided this is what I am going to wear today. Was it the Peregrina pearl necklace? Was it the Elizabeth Taylor diamond? Was it the Mike Todd suite of ruby jewellery? Was it the Bulgari emerald jewellery - of which the broach was purchased by Richard Burton when they first got married in 1964?"
17. Close up Bulgari emerald necklace
FILE: Cannes, France - 23 May 2003
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18. Various of Taylor wearing Bulgari necklace being interviewed on red carpet
STORYLINE
Elizabeth Taylor dazzled the world with her luminous beauty, lavish lifestyle - and an unquenchable passion for diamonds and jewels that was fuelled by the great loves of her life.
The Hollywood star, who died in March at age 79, amassed one of the foremost jewellery collections in the world - which is coming up for auction in its entirety at Christie''s in New York in December.
It''s an extraordinary collection of rubies, diamonds, emeralds and sapphires in intricate and bold designs - and the stories behind them are as priceless as the gems themselves.
Among the standouts is the 16th-century La Peregrina, one of the largest and most symmetrically perfect pear-shaped pearls in the world, which Richard Burton purchased for Taylor in 1969 as a Valentine''s Day gift.
The two had met in Italy on the set of the 1963 film "Cleopatra" and married for the first time in 1964.
Once part of the crown jewels of Spain, the pearl later passed into the hands of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon III and the Duke of Abercorn.
When it came up at auction in New York, Burton snapped it up for 37-thousand dollars, beating out the underbidder, a member of the Spanish royal family.
Cartier later created a ruby and diamond necklace from which the pearl was suspended, a design that was inspired by the famous Velazquez portraits of Spain''s Queen Margarita and Queen Isabel wearing the pearl as a necklace.
La Peregrina is estimated to fetch between two and three (M) million dollars.
Burton was enamoured of historical pieces and in 1972 purchased the famous 17th-century Taj Mahal diamond pendant for Taylor''s 40th birthday.

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