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Weight:  approx. 60 carats

Dimensions:  30 x 25.81 x 11 mm (approximately)

Color:  Pale pink*

Weight of Rough:  Cut from Great Table

Origin:  Great Table

Date Found:  Cut in the early 1800's

Current Location:  Bank Markazi, Tehran, Iran; Iranian Crown Jewels

*Color in photographs varies due to
lighting conditions.

Replica of the famed Nur-al-Ain

Photo by Fred Ward

This stone was created from the small piece of the broken Great Table diamond. Its weight and dimensions can only be estimated as direct measurements cannot be taken. Harry Winston Jewelers set it in a tiara for the Empress Farah Pahlavi back in 1958. It would be assumed that it was weighed and measured, but they have declined to release any information concerning this data. The Empress was kind enough to express her regrets that she did not have any of this information either, and suggested communication with the Bank Markazi in Teheran where the stone resides. The bank has been unable to furnish this information also.

Nur-al-Ain: Detail of Incipient Cleavage

Note the crack at 3 o’clock, roughly half way from the culet to the edge. This is the incipient cleavage alluded to by Meen. If the stone is rotated 180°, this is now in the proper position to extend into the Darya-I-Nur.

The Tiara containing the Nur-al-Ain was crafted by Harry Winston Jewelers in 1958 for the
Wedding of Her Royal Majesty,
Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran