The "Hutton-Madivani" a necklace of 27 stones polished jade Chinese Qing Dynasty and in 1933 the prestigious jewelry house Cartier took over engarzarlas with closure made of rubies and diamonds, has become part jewelry this gemstone world's most expensive green.
The record was reached yesterday at the auction house Sotheby's sold jade necklace by 27.44 million dollars.
The piece of jewelry was designed for a wealthy American heiress, Barbara Hutton Woolworth, who first wore her wedding day in 1933, with Prince Alexis Mdivani, member of an aristocratic family from Georgia.
His father, Frank Winfield Woolworth business magnate, paid $ 55,000 by the time the necklace as a wedding gift for his daughter who, at 21, was among the wealthiest young heiresses in the world.
Woolworth Hutton was photographed with the coveted piece of jewelry months after their wedding, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, a year before divorce.
Alexis Mdivani died in 1935 in a traffic accident on the Costa Brava in Spain.
The necklace was in family hands for four decades until it was first sold at auction in 1988 that it came to pay two million dollars, which already at that time made the necklace Hutton-Mdivani is crowned as the piece of jewelry in the world's most expensive jade.
The Hutton-Mdivani, yesterday handed to a collector who won a bid that lasted about twenty minutes, expected to reach at least twelve million during the auction, said Quek Chin Yeow Efe, vice president of Jewelry Sotheby's.
We are before a unique piece of jewelry, exquisite quality and a significant historical background, Chin Yeow said.
Jade, the most revered gemstone in the East and the distinction that gives its preparation and its owners -distinguidos aristocratic characters of European and American- and social life make this necklace a coveted piece for collectors world but especially for Asians, he added.
In the same auction which sold the Hutton-Mdivani will bid for the Red Emperor, a diamond necklace and 60 rubies, over a hundred years old, and whose preparation took more than eight years after cutting and polishing every stone beautiful hand and which was paid $ 9.9 million.
In addition, the ring almost 30 carat Burmese ruby ​​Cartier who accompanied the Red Emperor sold for $ 7.3 million, a loner who also has more than a hundred years of history.
Another diamond necklace over ten carats, created by the Indian jeweler Nirav Modi, who has 17 brilliant-cut gems -the first auction in Asia featuring diamonds of the highest rated by its symmetry and is court- auctioned for $ 6.5 million.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, the third largest auctioneer of jewelry in the world after New York and Geneva raised in Monday's session more than $ 106 million and continues to bring expensive jewelry in Asia, a market with a steady increasing demand for items Luxury.
During the past weekend, Sotheby's sold more than 125 million pieces of modern and contemporary Asian art, corresponding to the first season of the year auction house of London in Hong Kong.
