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A rarely seen huge yellow diamond
was put on display in Guangzhou city, capital of southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday September 3. It's so far the largest yellow coloured diamond that can be seen in China . The 20.58-carat diamond, named "The Heart of Fire Phoenix" (火凤之心), is priced at about 10 million yuan, or 1.3 million US dollars.
Source: Enormous Yellow Diamond on Display @ CRI
Damien Hirst , is once notorious for the conceptual works in which creatures including a shark and a cow were pickled in formaldehyde inside glass tanks, but now he possibly gains much more fames than any living artists. First, his Lullaby Spring, a three-metre (10-foot) wide steel cabinet containing 6,136 hand-crafted and individually-painted pills, sold for 19.2 million dollars, makes him a priciest living artist. Now his "For the Love of God"--an 18th-century European male skull cast in platinum and encrusted with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pink diamond worth more than $8 million in the center of its forehead, is sold for $100M or £50M. Link
This gold bra which is currently displayed on a Beijing exhibition , is made of 630 grams of gold, 7.5 carats of South Africa diamonds, and numerous precious golden gem stones. It took craftsmen over 2,000 hours to make it. Sure, it is much cheaper when compared to this world's most expensive bra. Link
I am considering to buy one for my grandma's 80 years old birthday when I am back to China later this year.
China's first golden bars that are designed as birthday presents for the elderly were put on the market on Wednesday August 29.
China issued a limited edition of 999 sets of such golden bars priced at 199 yuan, or 26 U.S. dollars per gram. Every set of the bars, made from pure gold, includes four pieces of bars weighting at 30, 50, 100 and 200 grams. Each set also has its corresponding limited number and license.
The front of the bar has sixty different Chinese characters of "Shou", which means longevity in Chinese. The back has the work from the most noted contemporary Chinese painter, Qi Baishi's "Peach", which is also offered as a birthday present in China.
Source: CRI
A claimed 7000-carat diamond was unearthed in South Africa by an unnamed mine. The stone, as large as a coconut is twice the size of the Cullinan Diamond
, centre-piece of the British crown jewels. If the gem with a greenish tinge were genuine, it would be the stone of the century. Source: BBC
S.T. Dupont bring us the latest Lacquer and Palladium flash drive with diamond-head pattern (not actual diamonds). It looks so pretty and luxurious. It gets 2GB of space and costs $700. via: Tracing Gadget
The 4.25 billion years old diamonds were discovered encased in a crystal in Western Australia by scientists lead by Simon Wilde, a geologist at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia.
The tiny diamonds were found trapped in zircon, a rare and exceptionally stable mineral that forms under temperatures between 1,112 and 1,652 Fahrenheit (600 and 900 degrees Celsius). Source: National Geographic via SN
Dubbed "Splendid Night", the flowery pearl necklace made of 18K yellow gold and 456 natural pearls was shown on a pearl products exhibition held in Jinan city, capital of east China's Shandong province on June 12, 2007. link .jpg "Photo credit:Xinhua")
Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansass is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public and visitors are allowed to keep the gems they find. On June 5, a girl named Nicole Ruhter from Montana has been one of those lucky persons. Walking along a path taken by thousands of others at the park, the 13-year-old found something everyone else had missed -- a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond which was later named as "Pathfinder Diamond". Link
The scarey-looking but diamond-encrusted platinum cast humanskull is made by British artist Damien Hirst. When asking how much, you probably can't afford. It has a price tag of US$98 million.
The skull, named "For the Love of God", cast from a 35-year-old 18th-century European male, is coated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pink diamond worth more than $8 million in the center of its forehead. Link
A 2.2-ton-heavy jade bowl decorated with pattern of nine-dragons was on display in Tongzhou District of Beijing. It is the biggest jade bowl ever, with a diameter of 2.2 m. The previous biggest jade bowl is the Dushan Jade Bowl in Beihai Park in Beijing, made in 1265. Shang Wenzhong, the famous sculptor, designed and made the new biggest jade bowl, with the Nine Dragon Wall in the Forbidden City as a major source of inspiration.Source: CRI
Two Diamonds from the family of German Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, a cushion-shaped diamond weighing 102.54 carats and a pear-shaped diamond weighing 82.48 carats, were seen at a preview in Geneva May 8. Because of a tricky photographic angle, the two gem stones have wholly blocked both eyes of female model, forming an interesting"diamond eyes" scene. Each exceptional yellow diamonds is expected to fetch up to 2 million USD at a 17 May Sotheby's auction. Photo source: CD
Arco Valley Pearl is the biggest pearl for sale in the world, but not the largest in size. The 9.45 inch Pearl of Allah found by a diver off the Philippine island of Palawan in 1934 carries that title.The "Arco Valley Pearl", 3.1 inches in length, will be up for bidding at Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace and on the Internet, where it is estimated to fetch up to $8 million.via Neatorama
The value of the saltwater pearl is based on its size, color, weight, exclusivity, history and records of what people have been prepared to pay for similar precious items.The 575-carat pearl from 12th century Mongolia once belonged to Chinese emperors, Persian kings, the grandson of Genghis Khan and Marco Polo.
Osama bin Laden once tried to purchase the Pearl for $60 million to give to Saddam Hussein as an overture of unity between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government. Its 2006 appraised value is $61,850,000.The Pearl of Allah [also refer to as Pearl of Lao Tzu], the largest pearl on record, was recovered from a giant clam on May 7, 1934, off the coast of Palawan Island, Philippines. The pearl is 9.4 inches long and weighs about 14 lbs (6.4kg). The Muslim diver who found the pearl said its surface bore the image of a turbaned face, and he named it the Pearl of Allah.
The "White hair" covers a stone on display at an odd stone exposition held in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 28, 2007. The stone has an estimated price of 10 million yuan, or equivalent to US$1.3 million. link
Dresden Green diamond is a 41 carat (8.2 g) natural green diamond that has a historical record dating to 1722. It is named after the capital of Saxony, Germany where it has been on display for most of the last two centuries. The stone's unique green color is due to natural exposure to radioactive materials. Its valued is estimated to be around 2,00 million US dollars.
This gorgeous Jiang'an Temple Seal (静安寺宝印) whose design was based on Jing'an Temple in downtown Shanghai is displayed on Jewelry Shanghai 2007. Three craftsmen spent 1,056 hours making this gold piece which is said to be priceless due to its high-quality manufacturing process.
A model displays an emerald necklace named "Goddess of the Moon" at a jewelry shop in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province April 9, 2007. The necklace, weighting in at 228.35g and with two 2.5-carat diamonds studded, is valued at 60 million yuan (US$7.7million).
(Credit:Gong Hui/Xinhua)
