Two large yellow diamond- a cushion-shaped diamond weighing 102.54 carats and a pear-shaped diamond weighing 82.48 carats-from the collection of Marquise de Païva, or simply la Païva, the famous 19th century courtesan. She was called “the diamond eater” behind her back. She came from a poor Jewish family of a Moscow tailor, but she convinced her friend Théophile Gautier that she was the illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov. In 2007, the diamonds were put up for…