5 décembre 2008

A 6.34 carats coloured diamond and diamond ring, by Graff The fancy intense yellow diamond, weighing 6.34 carats, flanked by tapered baguette diamonds, mounted in platinum and 18k yellow gold, signed Graff, ring size 5¾. Estimate: HK$920,000 - 1,100,000, $120,000 - 140,000 - Unsold. Footnote: Accompanied by a certificate from GIA, stating the 6.34 carats diamond is fancy intense yellow, natural colour and SI1 clarity, with excellent polish and excellent symmetry. Report number and laser inscribed 16433123, dated 4th December... [Lire la suite]

A 3.56 carats coloured diamond ring The cut-cornered rectangular modified brilliant-cut fancy vivid greenish yellow diamond, weighing 3.56 carats, flanked by a pear-shaped fancy browhish Purplish pink, weighing 0.35 carat, and a fancy light blue diamond, weighing 0.29 carat, mounted in 18k white gold, size 5¼. Estimate: HK$590,000 - 690,000, $76,000 - 89,000 - Unsold. Footnote: Accompanied by three certificates from GIA, stating that the 3.56 carats diamond is fancy vivid greenish yellow, natural colour, the 0.35 carat... [Lire la suite]

A 5.34 carats coloured diamond and diamond ring The emerald-cut fancy yellow diamond, weighing 5.34 carats, to a brilliant-cut diamond border, flanked by trilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18k white gold, diamonds approximately 1.00 carat total, ring size 6. Sold for HK$264,000 Footnote: Accompanied by a gemological report stating the 5.34 carats diamond is natural fancy yellow colour and SI1 clarity. Report number M1G61760, dated 25th August 2008. Bonhams. Fine Jewellery and Jadeite, 4 Dec 2008. Hong Kong. Copyright ©... [Lire la suite]

A 6.07 carats coloured diamond and diamond ring The cut-cornered rectangular brilliant-cut fancy brownish greenish yellow diamond, weighing 6.07 carats, within a four-claw setting, flanked by fancy-cut diamonds, to brilliant-cut diamond shoulders, mounted in platinum and 18K yellow gold, ring size 6½. Estimate: HK$660,000 - 760,000, $85,000 - 98,000 - Unsold. Footnote: Accompanied by a certificate from GIA, stating that the 6.07 carats diamond is fancy brownish greenish yellow, natural colour and VS2 clarity. Report number... [Lire la suite]

If a diamond is girl’s best friend, than Cartier's Patiala necklace may very well be her soulmate. The necklace, executed for Maharajah of Patiala in 1928, contains 2,930 diamonds for a total weight of 962.25 carats. Part of the Cartier Dome collection at Art Basel, the Patiala necklace oozes diamonds, rubies, and an unrivaled wow factor. Penny-pinchers fret not: David Lynch’ seven minute “Diamonds. Gold and Dreams" presentation commissioned for the event will make you feel like a million bucks. Anetta Nowosielska... [Lire la suite]

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An extremely rare blue and white bottle vase, yuhuchun ping. Yuan Dynasty The elegant pear-shaped body rising to a waisted neck with a flared mouth and out-turned rim, all supported on a splayed foot, the inside mouth rim encircled with six pendant-ruyi lappets, the neck and upper body covered with lotus blossoms and leaves scattered on a scalloped-wave ground, above a band of upright petal lappets enclosing clouds and circles, and classic scroll around the foot, the base glazed except for the foot ring which is burnt orange,... [Lire la suite]

A rare moulded blue and white barbed-rim charger. Yuan Dynasty The central medallion freely painted with four clusters of blossoming lotus and other aquatic plants, encircled by a moulded band of lotus blossoms separated by spiky leaves reserved on a blue ground, the details of the moulding highlighted with white slip, the wide flange rendered with a band of turbulent waves, the flange edge painted inky blue, the exterior decorated with a band of lotus lappets enclosing freely-drawn ruyi motifs and circles, the base unglazed,... [Lire la suite]

A magnificent and extremely rare blue and white bottle vase, yuhuchun ping. Yuan Dynasty Of elegant pear-shaped form, the tall slender neck rising gently to a pronounced trumpet mouth, the sumptuous swollen body supported on a massively constructed splayed foot, vividly painted in underglaze-blue with a design of peony flowers amidst peony scroll, the threadlike stems with tendrils, some of the flowers still budding, others fully mature, all freely painted and evenly distributed throughout the large body, above a narrow border... [Lire la suite]