{"id":3918,"date":"2014-11-05T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2017-01-14T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T12:01:02","slug":"le-saphir-blue-belle-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/le-saphir-blue-belle-of-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"11 novembre 2014: le saphir Blue Belle of Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nous \u00e9tions \u00e0 la vente aux ench\u00e8res de Christie\u2019s le 11 novembre 2014 \u00e0 Gen\u00e8ve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ce c\u00e9l\u00e8bre saphir, d\u2019un poids de 392.52 carats, le \"Blue Belle of Asia\" y a \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en vente.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Il a battu le record du Monde pour le prix d\u2019un saphir\u00a0: 17.29 millions de dollars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ce qui fait un prix de 44063 dollars le carat pour ce saphir de forme coussin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ce saphir a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvert au Sri Lanka (\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque Ceylan) \u00e0 Pelmadulla, pr\u00e8s de Ratnapura.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Il fut tout d\u2019abord achet\u00e9 par la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Macan Markar, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour leur collection de gemmes et leurs clients royaux.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">En 1928 ce saphir \u00e9tait estim\u00e9 \u00e0 GBP50,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">En 1937 le Blue Belle of Asia fut vendue puis n\u2019est revenu sur le march\u00e9 qu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019occasion de cette vente aux ench\u00e8res de novembre 2014.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3918 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/le-saphir-blue-belle-of-asia\/blue-belle-of-asia3\/'><img width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/blue-belle-of-asia3-e1484395190547-300x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"blue-belle-of-asia\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/le-saphir-blue-belle-of-asia\/blue-belle-of-asia\/'><img width=\"352\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/blue-belle-of-asia-352x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"blue-belle-of-asia\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/le-saphir-blue-belle-of-asia\/blue-belle-of-asia2\/'><img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/blue-belle-of-asia2-400x266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"blue-belle-of-asia\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On ne connait que quatre saphirs gemmes pesant plus de 350 carats. Ces quatre saphirs proviennent du Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u00a0Le plus important est le \"Blue Giant of Orient\" avec 486.52ct.<br \/>\nLe deuxi\u00e8me est le \"Queen of Romania\" avec 478.65ct<br \/>\nLe troisi\u00e8me est le \"Logan sapphire\" avec 423ct. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 offert par Mrs Logan au Smithsonian Institute \u00e0 Washington en 1960.<br \/>\nLe \"Blue Belle of Asia\" arrive en quatri\u00e8me position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un c\u00e9l\u00e8bre saphir de 392.52 carats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemfrance.com\/wpblog\/french\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}