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Antique Oriental Pearl Necklace In Four Rows With Diamond Clasp, ca. 1910

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Antique Oriental Pearl Necklace In Four Rows With Diamond Clasp, ca. 1910

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This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

Today, it seems natural to us that a pearl necklace is part of our jewellery wardrobe - but before the cultured pearl was widely available, it was still necessary to dive for every single pearl. Not only did only a few shells contain the treasure they were looking for, even fewer of these pearls matched in shape, size and colour. The so-called "matching" could often take years. "It often takes a long time of collecting before uniform pearls are matched to form a necklace. For example, it took five years before the beautiful pearl necklace that Emperor Frederick, as Crown Prince, presented to his young wife as a wedding gift was completed," noted the ladies' magazine Der Bazar in 1894. This is one such precious necklace, which required patience to put together. For each of the natural oriental pearls had to be dived in the ocean. They are selected to match each other in size and their delicate, slightly creamy colour; and yet each pearl retains its individuality, for all exhibit irregular natural shapes. They wrap close around the neck in four strands, in the classic choker length favored in the early 20th century. The natural origin of the pearls is confirmed by an independent expert opinion. A clasp set with diamond roses holds the four strands of pearls together at the nape of the neck, allowing the necklace to adorn up-do hairstyles. We had it strung on new pearl silk so it can be worn safely and with peace of mind. A wonderful piece of jewellery for individualists.

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Even in Pliny's time, the most precious pearls were the oriental pearls from the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. Pliny, however, was not the only one to associate pearl fishing there with the danger of the "manyly and great monsters" of the sea, thus adding to its value the allure of danger. Even much later, when the trade routes were already more closely linked and the origin of the pearl had long since ceased to be a mystery, the pearl still retained the wildly romantic tone of its perilous origin. In 1888, the ladies' journal Bazar wrote: "The beauty bestowed on the pearl is worthy of thousands of bold divers, coastal dwellers of the Persian Gulf, that the daring pearl fishermen of Ceylon and Japan do not respect the terrors and dangers of the deep, do not shy away from an encounter with sharks and sawfish, do not fear the deadly embrace of polyps, in order to bring the pearl shell lying on a gloomy sea bed to the bright light of the sun. But not every one of these shells rewards the toil and complaint of its predator, and hundreds deceive the hopeful expectation of delicious contents."

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