{"id":6868,"date":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/new-record-sale-at-christies\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:00:00","slug":"new-record-sale-at-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/new-record-sale-at-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"New record sale at Christie&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s auction house is famous all over the world for its antiques sold through its auctions and, for what concerns the <strong>quality and beauty of the offered jewels<\/strong>, it&#8217;s second to no one; last june Christie&#8217;s has <strong>reached a new record peak <\/strong>about the <strong>sell of a grey natural pearls necklace<\/strong> with <strong>the Cowdray<\/strong> one.<\/p>\n<p>Among the <strong>15 milion dollars reached on the 13th of June<\/strong> with the offered auctions, one thing stood out of rest for beauty, prestige and record price obtained from the sale: the Cowdray pearl necklace, <strong>made of 38 rare natural grey pearls, graduated and disposed on a single strand<\/strong>, was <strong>evaluated between 280.000 and 350.000 pounds<\/strong>, but the auction took the price a lot higher, <strong>reaching 3.35 milion dollars and raising its value by 381%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This rarely beautiful necklace, once <strong>part of the personal collection of the latest Viscountes Cowdray<\/strong>, Lady Pearson (1860-1932), is a clear statement of her <strong>innefable taste and great knowledge<\/strong> that she had about such magnificent pieces of jewellery; \u201cthe sale presented a strong array of natural pearl jewels, led by <strong>the exceptional Cowdray Pearl necklace which set a world record price<\/strong> for natural grey pearls at auction\u201d, said <strong>Keith Penton, head of London jewelry department<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s auction house is famous all over the world for its antiques sold through its auctions and, for what concerns the quality and beauty of the offered jewels, it&#8217;s second to no one; last june Christie&#8217;s has reached a new record peak about the sell of a grey natural pearls necklace with the Cowdray one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}