Christie’s revealed the main lots of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels to be auctioned in New York this December.

Select highlights from the 269-piece collection went on an eight-city tour including London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris and Hong Kong, and now Moscow, where the jewels are on display at the GUM Department Store on Red Square.

Among the jewellery are a diamond and gold necklace worth $120,000-$180,000 and a pair of earrings costing $25,000-35,000 from the “Barquerolles” jewellery by Van Cleef & Arpels, which one of her husbands, Richard Burton, had given to her as a gift.

There is also a $300,000 brooch which the actress wore for the 1964 film Night of the Iguana, in which she starred alongside Burton.

One of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Taylor is remembered for her roles in National Velvet (1944), Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Thin Roof (1958) and Cleopatra (1963), among others. She won two Academy awards for her roles in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Taylor was known as much for her career as for her personal life. She married eight times and suffered several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, she championed HIV and AIDS programmes.

Taylor died of congestive heart failure last March 23, aged 79.