Rahul Kadakia, Head of Jewelry for Christie’s Americas and Switzerland, said, “Our April 16 auction in New York includes a magnificent selection of important diamonds, rare colored gems, and superb signed jewels. From the Collection of Riki and Jerome Shaw, offered to raise a very significant amount of money for animal rescue, the beautiful jewelry collection of Kathleen and Martin Field, an Historic emerald and diamond brooch, by Van Cleef & Arpels, to two rare colored diamond rings by JAR, the sale offers jewels to the taste of every collector. Going into the spring jewelry season, Christie’s is proud to present collectors the very best jewelry at our sales worldwide.”
Some of the highlights of the sale include a historic Emerald and Diamond Brooch, by Van Cleef & Arpels whose central emerald originally adorned the tiara of Marie Louise, the second wife of Napoleon. The coloured and colourless diamond feature gems in sizes ranging from less than one carat up to over 50 carats. There is also the D color Internally Flawless Circular Cut Diamond Ear Pendants of 22.60 and 22.31 carats. From the collection of JAR is the historic Fancy Yellowish Green Diamond and the Oval Cut Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond of 15.75 carats.
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