{"id":10318,"date":"2014-03-25T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gioiellis.com\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2024-08-26T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:41:12","slug":"i-super-gioielli-romantici-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gioiellis.com\/en\/i-super-gioielli-romantici-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie’s Romantic Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big jewelry auctions are back. Christie’s on April 16 in New York is selling 250 jewels in two auction sessions in the Rockefeller Center saleroom. The auction includes a wide range of jewels, rare pearls, precious gems. A treasure that bears the signatures of top maisons, such as Suzanne Belperron, Ren\u00e9 Boivin, Bulgari, Cartier, Tiffany, VanCleef & Arpels, David Webb, Harry Winston. The goal is to reach 50 million. According to Rahul Kadakia, head of jewels USA and Switzerland at Christie’s, \u00abthe auction in New York includes a magnificent selection of important pieces, rare colored gems and signed jewels\u00bb. There is also a charitable purpose, given that from the sale of the collection of Riki and Jerome Shaw a part of the proceeds will be donated to the rescue of animals destined for a cruel fate. Also up for auction is the jewelry collection of Kathleen and Martin Field, with a historic diamond and emerald brooch by Van Cleef & Arpels, which is among the most valuable pieces on sale. Among other things, the central emerald was originally mounted on the tiara of Marie-Louise, Napoleon’s second wife, made by Etienne Nitot et Fils, in Paris, on the occasion of the emperor’s wedding in 1810. Marie-Louise later donated it to her aunt, Archduchess Elise, and later, in 1953, the tiara was sold to Van Cleef & Arpels. The maison then made this brooch around the emerald for Sybil Harrington, an American woman very active in philanthropy, in 1967. This brooch has already been sold in 1999 for $178,500.<\/p>\n

The April auction features a selection of gems ranging in size from less than one carat to over 50 carats. The top selling item is a pair of 22.60- and 22.31-carat D-color (absolutely transparent) round-cut Flawless diamond earrings (estimate: $7\u201310 million). Also highly sought after are a 40.43-carat D-color oval-cut diamond (estimate: $5.8\u20137.8 million), and a 50.05-carat D-color transparent briolette-cut diamond (estimate: $5.5\u20137.5 million). The auction also features pieces steeped in history, such as lot 95, a ring with the yellowish green Historic Fancy diamond. It was an engagement ring, a gift from Countess Eliza to Count Zygmunt Krasinski, one of the great Polish Romantic poets, whom she married in 1843.
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