Fit For A Queen

Long earrings with pearls & diamonds in white gold, circa 1955


€ 1,290.00 *
Content 1 piece
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Long earrings with pearls & diamonds in white gold, circa 1955
Long earrings with pearls & diamonds in white gold, circa 1955
Description
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The ancient author Pliny considered pearls to be the most precious commodity of all. In his Naturalis Historia, he tells of a bet Cleopatra made with Marcus Antonius: she wanted to eat the equivalent of ten million sestertii at a single sumptuous feast. To this end, she had a cup of vinegar served to her at the appropriate time. She then dissolved one of her pearl earrings in front of the emperor, who was already confident of victory, and drank the liquid. Cleopatra's pearl earrings were considered to be the largest and most precious in the ancient world, valued at the very amount she was about to eat. The act was so shocking for those present that the referee Lucius Plancus hastened to declare her the winner of the bet - lest she sacrifice the second pearl. We have the Japanese entrepreneur Mikimoto to thank for the fact that beautiful round pearls like the ones set here were no longer just for queens to wear in the 20th century. He recognized the great demand for pearls, which could never be met by pearl dipping - and invented a process to grow full-round pearls on demand. This triggered the great pearl fashion of that century. These earrings date back to the heyday of the cultured pearl, when pearl necklaces and earrings were part of every well-stocked jewelry box. A dynamically pointed triangle presents a glittering brilliant-cut diamond in the middle. Below this, a cultured pearl is suspended from a white gold pendulum set with further old-cut diamonds. Their warm, silky lustre is the perfect complement to the cool shine of the diamonds and white gold. The earrings are in very good condition. To this day, they capture the elegance of the Midcentury in a wonderful way.
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Long earrings with pearls & diamonds in white gold, circa 1955
Fit For A Queen
€ 1,290.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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