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    Pair of Diamond Ear Pendants

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    At the Beginning of the Month we search Christie’s Auction Results and Post the TOP 5 Auction Highlights that Sold for the highest price. This listing was one of the Top 5 sales at Christie’s month, we hope you enjoy this information as much as we enjoy posting it! Please make sure you come back periodically to see the Top Collectibles that Sold at Christie’s.

    #1. Pair of Diamond Ear Pendants Sold for $8,565,000.

    Description:   Each set with a circular-cut diamond, weighing approximately 22.60 and 22.31 carats, from a shield-shaped diamond, to the circular-cut diamond surmount, mounted in platinum. With report 2155853127 dated 9 January 2014 from the Gemological Institute of America stating that the diamond, weighing approximately 22.60 carats, is D color, Internally Flawless clarity, with excellent cut, polish and symmetry.

     

     

    Diamond Ring Sold for  $7,669,000.

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    #2. Diamond Ring Sold for  $7,669,000.

    Description:   Set with an oval-cut diamond, weighing approximately 40.43 carats, to the circular-cut diamond hoop, mounted in platinum, size 6¼. With report 10723642 dated 10 June 2013 from the Gemological Institute of America stating that the diamond is D color, VVS1 clarity, with excellent polish and excellent symmetry. Accompanied by a working diagram indicating that the clarity may be potentially internally flawless.

     

     

     

     

    Colored Diamond and Diamond Ring, By Harry Winston Sold for $5,765,000.

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    #3. Colored Diamond and Diamond Ring, By Harry Winston Sold for $5,765,000.

    Description:   SYED HAIDER RAZA (B. 1922). La Terre. Signed and dated ‘RAZA ’73′ (lower right); signed twice, titled, dedicated, inscribed and dated ‘RAZA 1973 “la terre”, peinture faite Paris en 1973, posé au “manoir” Nonancourt le 1er Juin 1975, pour Pierre et Francette Rousel. RAZA’ (on the reverse)  acrylic on canvas.  74 3/8 x 74 3/8 in. (189 x 189 cm.).  Painted in 1973.

     

     

     

     

    Early Iznik Pottery Bowl Sold for $2,393,667.

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    #4. Early Iznik Pottery Bowl Sold for $2,393,667.

    Description:   Of deep rounded form rising from short foot slightly widening at the base, the white interior decorated in two shades of blue with a central roundel filled with elegant rumi arabesque reserved against a cobalt-blue ground, the roundel with a minor chequered border, the cavetto with usual design of cypress trees growing from grassy tufts which also issue swaying branches from which grow wide semicircular fanned flowers that alternate with the cypresses, the cypresses each issuing two round flowerheads, the space around these filled with lively hatayi on blue ground, above this another chequered border beneath a rim with cartouches filled with scrolls and stylised leaf motifs and alternated with horizontal lines, the exterior with hatayi lotus scrolls, the rim with a band of zig-zag motif, around the foot a band of chevrons, very occasional splashes of turquoise, light staining to centre, intact  13¼ in. (33.8cm.) diam.; 6 1/8in. (15.8cm.) high.

     

    Concetto spaziale, Attese  Painting Sold for $2,331,185.

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    #5. Concetto spaziale, Attese  Painting Sold for $2,331,185.

    Description:   Lucio Fontana (1899-1968). Concetto spaziale, Attese  firma, titolo e iscrizione l. Fontana “Concetto Spaziale” ATTESE Domani vado a riposarmi in america [sic] (sul retro)  idropittura su tela  cm 65,3×54,2  Eseguito nel 1964-65. Opera registrata presso la Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano, n. 671/1, come da autentica su fotografia.

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