Estrela de Fura Ruby
- Year
- sold 2023
- Rank
- 11 of 100
Estrela de Fura Ruby
Estrela de Fura Ruby (sold 2023) is ranked 11 in the FLOAT 100 for Jewelry. It sold for $34,800,000 on 8 June 2023. Most expensive ruby AND most expensive colored gemstone ever sold at auction; largest gem-quality ruby auctioned.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Most expensive ruby AND most expensive colored gemstone ever sold at auction; largest gem-quality ruby auctioned.
55.22 ct cushion Mozambique 'pigeon's blood' ruby; cut from 101 ct rough
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $34,800,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 8 June 2023
Sotheby's New York; $34.8M, world record for a ruby and for any colored gemstone, surpassing the Sunrise Ruby's $30.3M (2015).
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08