{"id":34310,"date":"2016-01-14T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T10:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fundacionmontemadrid.es\/?p=34310"},"modified":"2019-03-18T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:58:28","slug":"zafiros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/monte\/zafiros\/","title":{"rendered":"Zafiros, la piedra preciosa que est\u00e1 de moda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34316 size-large\" src=\"\/monte\/medios\/2016\/01\/zafiro-montemadrid-1024x1024.jpg\" alt='zafiro-montemadrid' width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/>Esta piedra preciosa pertenece al grupo del <strong>corind\u00f3n\u00a0<\/strong>junto con el diamante, el rub\u00ed y la esmeralda; son las piedras m\u00e1s demandadas y de mayor valor. En la subasta extraordinaria por el <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fundacionmontemadrid.es\/montemadrid\/ven-a-celebrar-el-313aniversario-del-monte-de-piedad\/\" target=\"_blank\">313 Aniversario del Monte de Piedad<\/a>\u00a0el zafiro fue protagonista<\/strong><b>, <\/b><strong>al subastarse <\/strong>un precioso zafiro de Ceyl\u00e1n (Sri Lanka), talla esmeralda con un peso de 18.95 ct, por 32.000 \u20ac.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Con ese caracter\u00edstico\u00a0color azul intenso, los\u00a0zafiros\u00a0son una\u00a0piedra preciosa que est\u00e1 de moda.<\/strong>\u00a0S\u00f3lo hay que echarle un vistazo a algunos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brilliance.com\/diamonds\/hot-or-not-are-sapphire-engagement-rings-a-new-trend\" target=\"_blank\">blogs<\/a>\u00a0especializados y redes sociales\u00a0para ver c\u00f3mo est\u00e1 marcando tendencia entre las cuentas de amantes de las joyas.<\/p>\n<p>Recientemente, la revista <strong>Forbes<\/strong>\u00a0public\u00f3 el hallazgo del mayor\u00a0<strong>zafiro estrella azul<\/strong> del mundo en una mina de Sri Lanka, en las inmediaciones Ratnapura, con el sorprendente\u00a0peso de 1.404 quilates. El propietario, que permanece en el anonimato, ha valorado la joya en m\u00e1s de 300 millones de d\u00f3lares estadounidenses.\u00a0Lo m\u00e1s probable, indicaban, es que esta pieza termine\u00a0en una colecci\u00f3n de museo, donde todo el mundo la pueda disfrutar y admirar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BAcaZ87SarB\/\" target=\"_blank\">The world\u2019s biggest blue star sapphire was recently found in a Sri Lankan mine, weighing an astonishing 1,404 carats. The owner, who remains anonymous, of the rare sapphire has valued the gem at over $300 million. Reports indicate that the sapphire was found in Ratnapura nearby Sri Lanka in the fall of 2015 and just recently surfaced in the international community. Most likely, this piece will end up in a museum or gem collection, with the owner currently in search of an interested party. We can all hope that this magnificent blue star sapphire will end up somewhere where everyone can enjoy and admire it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">Una foto publicada por Forbes (@forbes) el <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-01-12T15:25:43+00:00\">12 de Ene de 2016 a la(s) 7:25 PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Otro\u00a0zafiro de gran\u00a0tama\u00f1o es el que se subast\u00f3 en Londres en 2003, de 478 ct, realizado por <strong>Cartier<\/strong> para la <em>Exposici\u00f3n de Oto\u00f1o 1919<\/em> en San Sebasti\u00e1n\u00a0(Espa\u00f1a)\u00a0y que perteneci\u00f3 a la Reina Ana de Rumania, con un precio de remate de 1.253.460\u20ac.<\/p>\n<p>Como curiosidad, las otras dos piezas de mayor tama\u00f1o que existen son:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEstrella de la India\u201d 576 ct que se encuentra en Museo de Historia Natural de Nueva York.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNariz de Pedro el Grande\u201d 547 ct, que se encuentra en Dresde, Alemania.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00bfCu\u00e1les son las caracter\u00edsticas para que el zafiro tenga\u00a0m\u00e1s valor?<\/h3>\n<p>\u2022 Color.<br \/>\n\u2022 Transparencia.<br \/>\n\u2022 Pureza (las inclusiones penalizan el valor).<br \/>\n\u2022 Tama\u00f1o.<br \/>\n\u2022 Calidad de la talla.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00bfCu\u00e1les son las variedades del zafiro?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Zafiro de Agua<\/b>: es la variedad azul de la cordierita o dicro\u00edta.<\/li>\n<li><b>Zafiro blanco<\/b>: corind\u00f3n cristalizado, incoloro y transparente.<\/li>\n<li><b>Zafiro falso<\/b>: variedad del cuarzo cristalizado que presenta la coloraci\u00f3n azul debida a inclusiones de peque\u00f1os individuos de crocidolita.<\/li>\n<li><b>Zafiro oriental<\/b>: zafiro muy apreciado por su brillo u oriente.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Existen variedades con asterismo generalmente de seis puntas debido a las finas agujas de rutilo denominados <strong>zafiro estrella.<\/strong>\u00a0Es el caso que mencion\u00e1bamos al inicio del art\u00edculo.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00bfDe d\u00f3nde proviene el\u00a0zafiro?<\/h3>\n<p>Los pa\u00edses productores con mejores calidades son Sri Lanka (Ceyl\u00e1n), Camboya, Myanmar, Cachemira (India). Otros\u00a0como Tailandia y Australia tambi\u00e9n son productores, pero con calidades inferiores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esta piedra preciosa pertenece al grupo del corind\u00f3n\u00a0junto con el diamante, el rub\u00ed y la esmeralda; son las piedras m\u00e1s demandadas y de mayor valor. En la subasta extraordinaria por el 313 Aniversario del Monte de Piedad\u00a0el zafiro fue protagonista, al subastarse un precioso zafiro de Ceyl\u00e1n (Sri Lanka), talla esmeralda con un peso de &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"\/monte\/zafiros\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abZafiros, la piedra preciosa que est\u00e1 de moda\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[10],"better_featured_image":{"id":95631,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":720,"height":480,"file":"2016\/01\/zafiro-montemadrid-720x480.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"zafiro-montemadrid-720x480-150x100.jpg","width":150,"height":100,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"\/monte\/medios\/2016\/01\/zafiro-montemadrid-720x480-150x100.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"zafiro-montemadrid-720x480-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"\/monte\/medios\/2016\/01\/zafiro-montemadrid-720x480-300x200.jpg"},"twentyseventeen-featured-image":{"file":"zafiro-montemadrid-720x480-720x480.jpg","width":720,"height":480,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"\/monte\/medios\/2016\/01\/zafiro-montemadrid-720x480-720x480.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":34310,"source_url":"\/monte\/medios\/2016\/01\/zafiro-montemadrid-720x480.jpg"},"e_categories":[{"term_id":2,"name":"El joyero","slug":"el-joyero","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":85,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":85,"category_description":"","cat_name":"El joyero","category_nicename":"el-joyero","category_parent":0}],"e_tags":[{"term_id":10,"name":"zafiros","slug":"zafiros","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95632,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions\/95632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}