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LXIV.
THE HEART.
A Splendid Trinket—The Royal Ttirban of Baber—Eastern Monarche in Full Dress.
EAN Baptiste Tavernier says that in 1665, he saw amongst Aurung-teVs treasures, a trinket composed of twelve diamonds, all rose-cut, and each weigh­ing from 13 to 14 carats. In the midst was a heart-shaped rose of the finest water, with three little flaws, the rose weighing 35 carats. It seems that Akel Khan, the crown jeweller, shewed them to the famous French merchant.
Portraits of Baber, a descendant in the fourth generation from Timour of Western Tartary, repre­sent his royal apparel as exceeding in splendour either that of his son or grandson, Humaiun and Akbar, or any of their successors on the Imperial throne of Hindoostan. All their portraits are notice­able as lacking a " Cydaris " or tiara, or royal turban, comparable to that worn by Baber, which is worth describing. The rose composition in the front con­tains twelve large diamonds in the circumference, and within this are ranged twelve pearls, and in the centre a magnificent rose-cut diamond. On the top is an angular diamond, of the shape of that mentioned by Tavernier, and surrounded by fourteen pearls;