According to auction house Guernsey’s, a prominent museum bought the necklace and earring set.
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The Standard Oil heiress’ surrealist brooch, as well as its original concept art, found a new owner at Christie’s New York last week.
Plus, a Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 “Pink-on-Pink” goes for $3.9 million at the “Important Watches” auction.
She will be the auction house’s senior specialist for jewelry and watches for the Northeast region.
The “Estrela de Fura” is now the most expensive ruby ever sold at auction, while the purplish pink diamond set a couple records of its own.
Plus, the Van Cleef & Arpels cuff once belonging to Marlene Dietrich sold for $4.5 million.
Signature pieces from Cartier and David Webb will appear in the June jewelry auction.
Set with a 118-carat unheated Sri Lankan sapphire, it just sold for $3.4 million at Phillips jewelry auction in Hong Kong.
The D-color, internally flawless, Type IIa stone will be offered without reserve.
The 28-piece collection is the largest to be offered at auction.
The fancy vivid blue diamond topped the Sotheby’s Geneva “Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels” sale.
Benoît Repellin joined the auction house last year.
The sale, though embroiled in controversy, has garnered nearly $200 million in total.
The first-day total topped the 2011 Elizabeth Taylor auction despite controversy surrounding the sale and the top lots underperforming.
The matching diamond and pearl necklace and earrings will be auctioned at The Pierre Hotel in New York on June 27.
Jewish organizations are calling on Christie’s to halt the auction or donate a greater portion of the proceeds to Holocaust education.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas wore the 11.16-carat pear-shaped blue diamond to the event.
Set in a necklace by Bulgari, it will hit the auction block later this month.
The story details how the late billionaire’s husband, Helmut Horten, built his company by buying Jewish businesses during Nazi persecution.
Christie’s says it is the largest collection of JAR jewels ever to be sold at auction.
Paul Newman’s Rolex Ref. 16520 “Zenith” Daytona and a Rolex Ref. 116519 Daytona will go up for auction June 9 at Sotheby’s.
The 55.22-carat “Estrela de Fura” is headed to Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels sale in June.
Artisan Martin Roberts fashioned lunar meteorites into 48 beads to create this out-of-this-world necklace.
Heidi Horten, wife of department store magnate Helmut Horten, collected jewelry from Bulgari, Cartier, Harry Winston and Van Cleef & Arpels.
Sotheby’s will auction the diamond, which it says is “arguably the most significant pink diamond to ever appear at auction,” in June.