Pahlavi crown
The Pahlavi crown was used as the official crown by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran .
After the Kadscharenherrschaft the Pahlavi took over the Peacock Throne in 1925. Her first monarch Reza Shah was a group of jewelers headed by the emigrated from Russia to Iran Caucasian jeweler Seraj-al-Din Jawāherī ( Haj Serajeddin Javaheri), which also the Emir of Bukhara had been commissioned to manufacture a new crown, which was to be decorated with motifs from the Sassanid period, to commemorate a glorious period in Persian history .
layout
The crown is made from a frame made of gold and silver and a hat-like cap made of red velvet . It is 298 mm high and 198 mm in diameter. Their weight is 2,080 g. It has 3,380 diamonds totaling 1,144 carats . There are also 369 pearls and five large emeralds on the crown. The very wide openwork hoop has a row of pearls on the upper and lower edge, which are flanked again on the upper and lower side with narrow bands of diamonds. The ring bears alternating Sassanid motifs in the form of crossed curved lines, which are set with diamonds, and diamond rosettes, which are connected to the edges by golden triangles.
Above the hoop there are four very large spikes that curve slightly outwards and have the shape of stepped battlements on top . The peaks are each filled with a large diamond formation, which consists of large diamond rosettes, from which brilliantly studded bands emanate like sunbeams on all sides . The large stone in that formation on the front is a 60 carat pale yellow diamond. In the spaces between the diamond suns there are emeralds surrounded by diamonds. The upper edge of the step battlements is adorned with a continuous band of pearls. The upper half of the velvet hood bears four clasp-like diamond motifs that resemble those on the ring. Another such motif of crossed lines, which holds a white feather aigrette, stands above a diamond rosette, which is located on the front of the crown above the point and frames a 100 carat emerald.
The crown was used twice at a coronation. On April 25, 1926 Reza Shah and on October 26, 1967 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was crowned with her.
The crown is now in the Crown Jewel Museum in the National Bank in Tehran .
See also
literature
- Jürgen Abeler (text), Vok Dams (photos): Kronen. Sign of rulership of the world. 6th, greatly expanded edition. Biermann, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-926058-02-1 .
- Yaḥyā Ḏokāʾ: CROWN v. In the Qajar and Pahlavi periods . In: Encyclopædia Iranica. 1993-2011, volume 6, fascicle 4, p. 425 f.