{"id":142,"date":"2014-12-02T06:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keepsakesjewelry.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2014-12-02T06:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T06:33:32","slug":"blue-diamonds-sets-record-for-price-per-carat-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Blue Diamonds sets record for price-per-carat sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s auction creates a new global record for highest price of any blue diamond as well as sets a record for price-per-carat for any diamond which is $3.3 million per carat. A presale estimated $10 to $15 million blue diamond ended up at whooping total amount of $32,645,000 after intense bidding from even prospective buyers. The gem eventually went to a Hong Kong private collector\u2019s inventory. Hong Kong collectors are constantly active in the world jewelry market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.keepsakesjewelry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Blue-Diamonds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143\" alt=\"Blue-Diamonds\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keepsakesjewelry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Blue-Diamonds.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Blue-Diamonds.jpg 700w, https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Blue-Diamonds-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The vivid blue diamond is of 9.75 carat with exceptional purity of the blue with no other colors. It also has the very high clarity to all other blue diamonds which contain imperfections due to crystal formation.<\/p>\n<p>The gem belongs to the collection of heiress Rachel \u201cBunny\u201d Mellon, who died earlier this year. She was the widow of philanthropist and\u00a0<a title=\"Horse breeding\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horse_breeding\">horse breeder<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Paul Mellon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Mellon\">Paul Mellon<\/a>. Sotheby\u2019s New York continues the auctions of the Mellon Collection through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s auction creates a new global record for highest price of any blue diamond as well as sets a record for price-per-carat for any diamond which is $3.3 million per carat. A presale estimated $10 to $15 million blue diamond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/?p=142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[205,65,64,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakesjewelry.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}