A Night at the Opera

Long Pearl Necklace with White Gold Clasp, ca. 1970


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Long Pearl Necklace with White Gold Clasp, ca. 1970
Long Pearl Necklace with White Gold Clasp, ca. 1970
Description
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Mainly due to Coco Chanel's fashion influence, it became socially acceptable to wear long pearl necklaces in opera or even robe length even during the day from the 1930s onwards. But from a jewelry history perspective, another key figure was involved in this previously unthinkable fashion: Japanese Kokichi Mikimoto, who in the 1920s had developed a business-ready process to produce full-round cultured pearls. Previously, it had often taken years of collecting to come up with a necklace of natural pearls of the right size and color. So this pearl necklace owes its existence equally to Coco Chanel and Kokichi Mikimoto. It has a length of 93.0 cm, so it shows in the transition from the so-called opera to the rope length: Hard to imagine how long a lady would have had to wait for the completion of such a necklace in the years around 1900! In total, 140 pearls of creamy white color are knotted together. At the same time, the pearls are very well selected: The so-called "matching", selecting beads of the same shape and color tone, is very well done. All beads show very similar color, the same only slight growth characteristics and have the same size. The pearl necklace is held by an elongated, interestingly fluted clasp made of white gold, on which another pearl is embedded. The clasp lets us date the necklace to around 1970. It found its way to us here in Berlin.
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Long Pearl Necklace with White Gold Clasp, ca. 1970
A Night at the Opera
€ 790.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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