A diamond jewellery from the collection box of Christina Onassis, daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, was auctioned and sold for £3.625 million ($7.1 million), in London. The anonymous bidder won the piece in a telephone bid. The piece is a pear-shaped D colour, VVS1, 38-carat diamond, suspended in a necklace made of marquise-cut diamonds. %% Christina’s daughter Athina organised the auction with 40 pieces of excusive jewellery, amongst which was also a bowenite Buddha by Carl Fabergé. The Buddha occupied had occupied a prestigious place on Aristotle Onassis’s yacht. It was sold to Moscow-based collector Alexander Ivanov for £1.3 million. The pear shaped diamond was bought at a price exceeding its pre-sale estimate of £2.2 million ($4.3 million).