The biggest vivid-green precious gem ever to emerge at auction is one of the uncommon natural-colored precious gems and chronicled jewels being traded at the Sotheby's November 17 sale at the Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva. A total of round 400 allotments are set to be auctioned off and could convey close to $30 million. The green precious gem, shown overhead at right, is a cushion-shaped pebble with a changed bright cut. It weighs 2.52 carats but because of the rarity of natural precious gems of this hue it is approximated to deal for $3.1 million to $5.1 million. Shown overhead at left is another costly uncommon pebble, a pear-shaped adorned vivid-blue precious gem with a changed bright cut. it weighs 5.96 carats and is anticipated to convey between $5.5 million to $7.5 million. Other gorgeous colorful precious gems up for sale encompass a cushion-shaped adorned pink precious gem weighing 6.63 carats and a a cut-cornered rectangular-shaped adorned vivid-yellow precious gem with a changed bright slash, weighing 74.8 carats and climbed on on a yellow gold ring.
The sale furthermore encompasses parts from the collections of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia and humanity number Daisy Fellowes. Many parts marked by Boucheron, Bulgari, Cartier, Harry Winston, Tiffany and Co., and Van Cleef and Arpels, and other jewelry dwellings past and present will be up for sale. A sapphire and precious gem demi-parure, circa 1900, was inherited from Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna by her female child Princess Elena of Greece and Denmark, Grand Duchess of Russia, and has been consigned by its present proprietor, a constituent of a European imperial family. The set is approximated to deal for $137,000 and $176,000. The assembly of jewels--which left Russia just before Pavlovna's air journey from St. Petersburg throughout the 1915 Revolution--includes a brooch set with an oval Burmese sapphire inside a boundary of cushion-shaped precious gems, and a two of equivalent ear clips.
Speaking of the sale, David Bennett, Sotheby's Chairman of Jewelry, Europe and Middle East, said: "We are thrilled that we are adept to pursue on from our accomplishment of the world record cost per carat for any gemstone at auction with the "Star of Josephine" this past May in Geneva by proposing a magnificent Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond of 5.96 carats, as well as an exceedingly uncommon vivid green precious gem – the biggest to ever emerge at auction."$875.
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