Iconic 23-carat blue diamond could be yours for €44m

Largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever at auction, The Golconda Blue will be auctioned on May 14 at Christie's in Geneva

The Golconda Blue fancy vivid blue diamond.

The largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever at auction, The Golconda Blue comes up at Christie's in Geneva on May 14.
Mounted in a ring by JAR and weighing 23.24 carats, the pear-shaped stone's provenance is rooted in Indian royalty. 

It was owned by the Maharajah of Indore, known for a lifestyle of cosmopolitan sophistication in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1913, his father had acquired the Indore Pear diamonds from Chaumet in Paris.