Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale at Rockefeller Center on 6th December, will feature a wide array of important coloured and colourless diamonds and signed jewels by heritage brands such as Bulgari, Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and more. The sale will be on view in New York from 2-5 December.
Highlights include the largest fancy blue diamond ever to appear at auction, the rare coloured diamond pendant-necklace is set with a 31.62-carat, fancy blue, potentially internally flawless diamond (estimate $10,000,000-15,000,000).
Further highlights include a magnificent diamond pendant-necklace, featuring an exceptional pear-shaped 86.64-carat D colour diamond (estimate $5,000,000-7,000,000) and a superb Diamond ‘Palm-Tree’ brooch mounted by Cartier from 1948 (estimate $500,000-700,000). From the collection of Margaret Thompson Biddle, the brooch features a circular brilliant-cut diamond of 13.30 carats.
Additional highlights include afine coloured diamond ring, featuring a fancy intense blue oval brilliant-cut diamond of 2.21 carats (estimate $1,200,000-1,800,000); a diamond torque bangle bracelet, set with a D colour, internally flawless heart-shaped diamond of 50.05 carats (estimate $3,700,000 – 4,500,000); and the De Beers Yellow, an exceptional fancy vivid yellow, internally flawless emerald-cut diamond of 13.75 carats (estimate $1,100,000 – 1,800,000).