A 34.64-CARAT pink diamond has sold at auction in New York for nearly $US40 million ($A38.68 million), setting a new record for Christie's auction house.
Dubbed the "Princie Diamond", the gem is "one of the largest and finest pink diamonds in the world", with a "fabulous provenance", Christie's jewellery chief Francois Curiel said ahead of the sale.
An anonymous telephone bidder paid $US39,323,750, or more than $US1 million per carat, for the stone from ancient diamond mines in southern India, the auction house said in a statement on Tuesday.
The pink gem was once owned by the royal family of Hyderabad and, since 1960, by the London branch of Van Cleef & Arpels.
The exclusive jewellery firm originally paid STG46,000 for it, equivalent to $US1.3 million today, Christie's said, indicating a hefty profit after Tuesday's sale.
All told, bidders paid more than $US80 million for the jewels at the New York auction, including just under $US4.5 million for a 30.32 carat rectangular cut D colour diamond and $US3.3 million for a Harry Winston diamond ring.
Previously, the most paid at Christie's for a diamond was $US24.3 million, for the 31-carat Wittelsbach diamond, in 2008.
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