Diamonds are discovered in the Cape Colony (now a province in South Africa), the beginning of a huge increase in the diamond supply.

钻石在开普敦殖民地(现在是南非的一个省)被发掘，于是钻石供应开始大量增加。

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About 40, 000 of these travelers settled in Cape Town, South Africa, lured by reports of the region's rich diamond and gold mines, but their immigration coincided with the rise of feathers in fashion, and South Africa already had domesticated ostriches who produced some of the highest-ranked feathers in the world.

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According to a Bonhams representative, the painting will be exhibited, alongside the rest of the diamond retailer's art collection, at the Delaire Graff Estate, near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape.

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