The massive, robin's egg blue Persian turquoise is used in making jewelry and creating mosaics, inlays or overlays that have adorned numerous monuments over the centuries. It takes a fine polish ...

But, he adds, “Persian and Sleeping Beauty turquoise are of course the most prized, but really this is more about how it is done. A great turquoise piece is more about where art meets jewelry ...

Meghan Markle made a habit of wearing dainty turquoise jewelry by the celebrity-adored ... in East Sussex in 2019), features three leaves of Persian turquoise stones surrounded by diamonds.

called Persian turquoise, in a diadem once owned by Napoleon’s second wife, the Empress Marie Louise. “The Marie Louise diadem is one of the few spectacular jewelry pieces that survived that era.

Most of the Persian jewelry he works with are diamonds, rubies and emeralds, representing the red, white and green of the Persian flag. The blue found in turquoise is also one of the national colors.