{"id":49144,"date":"2022-10-07T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/pink-diamond-expected-to-fetch-more-than-20m-at-hong-kong-auction"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T05:00:49","slug":"pink-diamond-expected-to-fetch-more-than-20m-at-hong-kong-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49144","title":{"rendered":"Pink diamond expected to fetch more than \u00a320m at Hong Kong auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson Pink Star is second largest \u2018fancy vivid pink\u2019 diamond to ever appear at auction<\/p>\n<p>The second largest, internally flawless \u201cfancy vivid pink\u201d diamond ever to appear at auction is expected to sell for more than \u00a320m when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby\u2019s in Hong Kong on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 11.15-carat, cushion-shaped diamond, known as the Williamson Pink Star, is named after two other huge pink diamonds: the 59.60-carat, mixed-cut, oval Pink Star diamond that sold for a record $71.2m at auction in 2017, and the Williamson stone, a 23.60-carat diamond given to the late Queen Elizabeth II as a wedding gift by the Canadian geologist and ardent royalist John Thorburn Williamson in 1947.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/pink-diamond-expected-to-fetch-more-than-20m-at-hong-kong-auction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson Pink Star is second largest \u2018fancy vivid pink\u2019 diamond to ever appear at auctionThe second largest, internally flawless \u201cfancy vivid pink\u201d diamond ever to appear at auction is expected to sell for more than \u00a320m when it goes under the hammer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,48,1457,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-hong-kong","category-tanzania","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49145,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49144\/revisions\/49145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}