{"id":334981,"date":"2025-04-30T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=334981"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:06:47","slug":"golconda-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/golconda-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Golconda Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The <strong>Golconda Blue diamond<\/strong> &#8211; \u201camong the rarest and most important\u2026ever discovered throughout history\u201d, has been expected to fetch $35 million to $50 million at <strong>an auction<\/strong> in Geneva on May 14.<\/p>\n<h2>About Golconda Blue<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334983\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-334983\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golconda-Blue.png?resize=405%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Golconda Blue\" width=\"405\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golconda-Blue.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golconda-Blue.png?resize=1024%2C574&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golconda-Blue.png?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golconda-Blue.png?w=1037&amp;ssl=1 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; India Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>legendary 23.24-carat fancy vivid blue diamond<\/strong>, renowned for its exceptional clarity, rich blue hue, and royal provenance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> The diamond traces its origin to the <strong>famed Golconda mines<\/strong> in present-day <strong>Telangana<\/strong>, India, which historically produced some of the world&#8217;s most celebrated diamonds, including the <strong>Koh-i-Noor, <\/strong>the pale pink <strong>Darya-i-Nur<\/strong><strong> and Hope Diamond.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is considered <strong>one of the rarest and most valuable diamonds<\/strong> in the world, with an estimated value between $35 million and $50 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Historical Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It belonged to <strong>Yeshwant Rao Holkar (1908-62),<\/strong> the <strong>Maharaja of Indore<\/strong>, who, along with his wife <strong>Sanyogitabai Devi<\/strong>, often collected paintings, jewellery, and other fine goods in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Later, it was commissioned into exquisite jewelry by leading Parisian jewelers, including Chaumet and Mauboussin, and <strong>worn by Maharani Sanyogita Devi<\/strong> of <strong>Indore<\/strong> in a famous portrait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Historical Accounts of Golconda Diamonds<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The French merchant <strong>Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89)<\/strong> wrote that <strong>diamond mining in the Golconda district<\/strong> grew at an explosive rate in the <strong>mid-17th century<\/strong>. At the Kollur mine, 60,000 diggers and washers were employed.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>French traveller Jean de Th\u00e9venot (1633-77)<\/strong> noted there was <strong>no uniformity in diamond prices <\/strong>and the <strong>king<\/strong> established a <strong>monopoly in mining<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>French Catholic physician Gabriel Dellon<\/strong>, who traveled to India in the late <strong>1660s<\/strong>, noted that the <strong>Surat<\/strong> is a place of great commerce; <strong>diamonds<\/strong> <strong>are brought<\/strong> there out of the Kingdom of Golconda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Golconda Blue diamond &#8211; \u201camong the rarest and most important\u2026ever discovered throughout history\u201d, has been expected to fetch $35 million to $50 million at an auction in Geneva on May 14. About Golconda Blue It is a legendary 23.24-carat fancy vivid blue diamond, renowned for its exceptional clarity, rich blue hue, and royal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/golconda-blue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golconda Blue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":334983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-334981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golconda-Blue.png?fit=1037%2C581&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}