Live Auction 7801The Dubai Sale: Jewels and Watches
Christie’s roundel
Lot 73 Known as 'Kawkab al Sharq'- 'The Shining Star of the Middle East', Umm Kulthum (1904-1975) was unquestionably the greatest Arab singer of the 20th century. Her incomparable voice was renowned all over Egypt by the time she was 5 years old and her importance in the Arab countries was so great that she was received with the same ceremony as heads of State. Her concerts were held on the first Thursday of each month in which she would sing her massive audience into an almost trance-like state with single songs lasting well over an hour as she repeated lines over and over again, each in a slightly different style. Her funeral, led by the presidential court, was followed by several million of her admirers and her popularity remains strong even thirty years after her death.

FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF UMM KULTHUM
Lots 73 to 76

A CULTURED PEARL AND PASTE FESTOON BROOCH

Closed28 April 2009

Price Realised

USD 30,000

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A CULTURED PEARL AND PASTE FESTOON BROOCH
The pavé-set paste openwork plaque designed as two facing swans with red paste eyes to the five-strand cultured pearl festoon, 15.0 cm long

FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF UMM KULTHUM

This brooch was a gift from the late Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980) to Umm Kulthum on the occasion of his wedding to Princess Fawzia, the sister of King Farouk, the late King of Egypt.