Queen Nazli Necklace 1930s
Featuring 673 diamonds, the stolen necklace, pictured here in Paris in 2020, belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt.
The necklace was on loan from Van Cleef & Arpels, the French jewelry house that designed it for Egypt’s Queen Nazli in the 1930s. It was on show as part of an exhibition pairing items from the museum’s own collection with more than 300 of the maison’s designs.
Comprising diamonds with a combined weight of more than 200 carats, the missing necklace features a six-carat central stone surrounded by lines of baguette diamonds and hundreds of smaller gems arranged in a sunburst motif. It was commissioned alongside a matching tiara by Queen Nazli, the wife of Egypt’s King Fuad I, for their daughter Fawzia’s wedding in 1939.
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