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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/record-price-paid-for-pink-diamond.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A rare pink diamond, knows as the Perfect Pink, has been sold at auction for a record 14.86 million pounds" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-record-price-paid-for-pink-diamond.jpg" alt="A rare pink diamond, knows as the Perfect Pink, has been sold at auction for a record 14.86 million pounds"/></a></p>
<p>A rare pink diamond has been sold at auction for a record £14.86 million.</p>
<p>The 14.23-carat rectangular gem, known as the Perfect Pink, went under the hammer at British auction house Christie&#8217;s Hong Kong saleroom, where it was bought by an anonymous bidder.</p>
<p>It was a record price for a jewel sold at auction in Asia. Another record was broken by the total raised by the Jewels: The Hong Kong Sale, which at £50,601,648 was the highest amount Christie&#8217;s had yet raised at a jewellery sale worldwide.</p>
<p>Vickie Sek, director of the jewellery and jadeite department for Christie&#8217;s Asia, said: &#8220;The strength of the jewellery market was once again demonstrated in Hong Kong with a record 78.9 million dollars (£50.6 million) auction making it the highest total ever for a jewellery auction in Asia and the largest at Christie&#8217;s worldwide.</p>
<p>&#8220;At 23.2 million dollars (£14.86 million), the Perfect Pink became the most expensive jewel ever sold at auction in Asia.</p>
<p>&#8220;Exceptional Burmese rubies and Kashmir sapphire also fetched top prices, as did jadeite which remains in great demand with Asian collectors.&#8221;</p>
<p>Christie&#8217;s said only 18 pink diamonds over 10 carats had appeared for sale in the auction house&#8217;s 244-year history, with the Perfect Pink the first to be graded a &#8220;fancy intense pink&#8221;.</p>
<p>A spokesman added: &#8220;Large, polished pink diamonds with this intensity of colour are virtually unheard of &#8211; in fact, fewer than 10% of pink diamonds weigh more than 0.20 carats.&#8221;</p>
<p>The diamond&#8217;s previous owner also wished to remain anonymous.</p>
<p>Prices included the buyers&#8217; premium.</p>
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