Lot 593. HSH Princess Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg's pair of very important 11.46 and 11.64 carats Burmese ruby and diamond pendent ear clips. Estimate 1,400,000 — 2,330,000 CHF. Lot sold 3,330,500 CHF.Photo Sotheby's 2012

Each suspending a cushion-shaped ruby, weighing 11.46 and 11.64 carats respectively, set within a surround of cushion-shaped and circular-cut diamonds, to a surmount of foliate design embellished with similarly cut and rose diamonds, screw back fittings.

Accompanied by SSEF report no. 65311 and Gübelin report no. 11030107/ 1 and 2, stating that the rubies are of Burmese origin, with no indications of heating. 

Provenance: HSH Princess Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1892-1990). These earrings were assembled in 1921 and given as a gift by her parents Trinidad von Scholtz Hermennsdorff, Duchess of Parcent, and Ambassador Manuel de Yturbe of Mexico, on the occasion of her wedding.

Thence by descent to the present owner.