Pictured above "Heritage Flower Gaze"
Chinese jewelry retailer, Chow Tai Fook, purchased the Cullian Heritage rough diamond in 2010 at 35.3 million dollars. Weighing in at an astounding 507.55 carats, artist Wallace Chan undertook the task to cut this miraculously (D) in color, near flawless diamond into several smaller counterparts in the journey to create his masterpiece, “A Heritage in Bloom”

Incorporated into the necklace are winged bats, a symbol of good fortune in the Chinese culture.This iconography is coupled with diamond and jade encrusted butterflies, a symbol of eternal love.
"Heritage Bright Day"
This neckpiece has an optimistic undertone of love and fortune apparent in the symbolism described above, but the mood is well executed in the utilization so soft pink diamonds and light shades of jade. It portrays a soft tone of innocence and delicateness that we associate with love. The sharpest edge in the piece is that of the bat wings that rest upon ones shoulder, even that has a sensual curve that we would not find in the bat anatomy in nature.
"Heritage Ethereal"
In past decades, even centuries, a piece as ornate as this would be created to showcase the wealth and power of the commissioner. Here in the modern era we are treated in the delight to marvel it as a spectacular piece of museum quality art. A means to push our ideas of how we can create something beautiful from something rough and amorphous, and have the end game be something to be admired for years to come.
Sources:
Artist's Site: http://www.chowtaifook.com/en/node/30685
Pictures: http://www.nationaljeweler.com/galleries/editorial/A-Heritage-in-Bloom-10004.shtml#4
Information: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2015/09/03/wallace-chan-creates-statement-necklace-from-507-carat-diamond/#5edce2ae7629
http://www.barrons.com/articles/200-million-masterpiece-lifts-luxury-to-new-heights-1441335925