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The Great Table was a large pink Great Table Diamond
gem, Britannica.com
Great Table
, By Scott Sucher, Museum Diamonds Diamonds originating in India Jewels of the Mughal Empire Pink diamonds Golconda diamonds {{india-hist-stub
The Great Table was a large pink diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the Chemical stability, chemically stable form of car ...
that had been studded in the throne of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...
. It has been described in the book of the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia ...
in 1642, who gave it its name ("Diamanta Grande Table").
The diamond was plundered by Nader Shah
Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian h ...
during his invasion of India in 1739 and disappeared after his assassination.
In 1965, a Canadian team from the Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...
conducting research on the Iranian Crown Jewels
The Iranian National Jewels ( fa, جواهرات ملی ایران, ''Javāherāt-e Melli-ye Irān''), originally the Iranian Crown Jewels ( fa, جواهرات سلطنتی ایران, ''Javāherāt-e Saltanati-ye Irān''), include elaborate cro ...
concluded that the larger Daria-i-Noor
The Daria-i-Noor ( fa, , lit=Sea of light), also spelled ''Darya-ye Noor'', is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing an estimated 182 carats (36 g). Its colour, pale pink, is one of the rarest to be found in diamonds. The diamond ...
and the smaller Noor-ul-Ain
The Noor-ul-Ain ( fa, نور العين, lit=the light of the eye) is one of the largest pink diamonds in the world, and the centre piece of the tiara of the same name.
History
The diamond is believed to have been recovered from the mines of Go ...
may well have been part of the Great Table.gem, Britannica.com
See also
*Daria-i-Noor
The Daria-i-Noor ( fa, , lit=Sea of light), also spelled ''Darya-ye Noor'', is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing an estimated 182 carats (36 g). Its colour, pale pink, is one of the rarest to be found in diamonds. The diamond ...
* Golconda Diamonds
* Koh-i-Noor diamond
The Koh-i-Noor ( ; from ), also spelled Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing . It is part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. The diamond is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Q ...
* Noor-ul-Ain
The Noor-ul-Ain ( fa, نور العين, lit=the light of the eye) is one of the largest pink diamonds in the world, and the centre piece of the tiara of the same name.
History
The diamond is believed to have been recovered from the mines of Go ...
* List of diamonds
Diamond (gemstone), Diamonds become famous typically for some combination of their size, color and quality. Diamonds occur naturally in many different colors, so the largest diamond of a particular color may not be large in absolute terms, but it ...
* List of largest rough diamonds
This is a partial list of the largest non-synthetic diamonds with a rough stone (uncut) weight of over 200 carats (40 grams). The list is not intended to be complete – e.g., the Cullinan (formerly Premier) mine alone has produced 135 diamond ...
References
* A. Malecka, "The Mystery of the Nur al-Ayn Diamond", Gems & Jewellery: The Gemmological Association of Great Britain, volume 23 (7), August/September 2014, pp. 20-22 https://issuu.com/jeweller/docs/jeweller_g_j__sept_2014_/58 * A. Malecka, "Darya-ye Nur: History and Myth of a Crown Jewel of Iran", Iranian Studies vol. 51 (2018), https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2017.1362952External links
Great Table
, By Scott Sucher, Museum Diamonds Diamonds originating in India Jewels of the Mughal Empire Pink diamonds Golconda diamonds {{india-hist-stub