It's eye-opening. The four kings of the billion-dollar jade industry are actually these few.

The jadeite we come into contact with in our daily lives is mostly worth a few thousand yuan or tens of thousands of yuan, but did you know that in the jadeite world there are "stars" with prices exceeding 100 million yuan? A small piece of stone can be worth over 100 million yuan. What is its origin?

1. The Great Wall of China

There are many high-end jades, but gem-grade jade is extremely rare. This is the top-grade imperial jadeite - "The Great Wall" - worth 560 million yuan. Hong Kong jewelry artist Chan Sai-ying exhibited 50 jewelry art works with a market value of approximately 230 million euros at the 26th Paris Antiques Biennale. Among them, "The Great Wall", made of top-grade imperial jadeite as the main stone, is worth about 56 million euros, setting a record for the highest price of jewelry in the 26th exhibition.

2. "Peerless Beauty"

The current market value of the “Peerless Beauty” necklace is close to 300 million yuan. The peerless elegance necklace consists of 9 emerald green jade egg-shaped faces and 204 diamonds with a total weight of 41.58 carats. The 9 jade egg-shaped surfaces are all glass-type jade, with delicate and lustrous texture, bright and gorgeous colors, rich and uniform emerald green, round and full, without a trace of impurities. When light penetrates through the bottom of the stone, the light is bright and crystal clear, making it a rare treasure among jades that is rarely seen in a century.

The 10 gorgeous and dazzling plum blossoms made up of 60 diamonds symbolize "magnificence" and "perfection".

3. Zhaoyi Star

The Star of Zhaoyi, a giant purple glass jadeite stone weighing 9,499 carats, is surrounded by numerous colorful gemstones, transforming into a gorgeous peony, a national treasure-level artwork. .

Nine small flower rings made of the same colorless glass were created together with the Zhaoyi Star. They cluster around the Zhaoyi Star, creating a magical mirror image of the stars and the sun chasing each other, and continuing the charm of the Zhaoyi Star series.

Total estimated price: RMB 600 million

The Zhaoyi Star was made from this rough jadeite. Under the illumination of a strong flashlight, it looked bright and lustrous. Finally, the new buyer, Zhaoyi Jade House, did not cut this icy violet jade into ring faces or ornaments for sale as usual. Instead, it was carved into an ornament called "Zhaoyi Star" as a treasure of the Beijing headquarters.

4. Sotheby’s Necklace

The Hutton-Mdivani Necklace, a natural jadeite necklace from the collection of legendary socialite Barbara Hutton, was sold for HK$214 million/US$27.44 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong's Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Spring Auction

These top-quality jadeite pieces are considered the best among jadeite. In the just concluded 2017 Myanmar Public Auction, another top-selling piece was born:

It weighs 64 kilograms and has a reserve price of 12 million euros. The reserve price had always been the most anticipated bid. People thought the opening price would shock the world, but it turned out to be unsold.

However, while the highest-priced jade piece failed to be sold, a jade piece with a reserve price of 88,000 euros was sold for 15,998,899 euros, or about 127 million yuan! This piece of raw stone is the "Line of Sky" that Consultant Zhao talked about yesterday. In "Gambling on Stones: "It is better to buy a line than a piece" it turns out to be like this! 》I don’t know if it will appreciate in value after it is opened, and the finished product will join the ranks of jadeite worth hundreds of millions of yuan!

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