Powerful Necklace Made of Large South Sea Pearls with Gold Clasp By Günter Krauss, Stuttgart Around 1995

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Powerful Necklace Made of Large South Sea Pearls with Gold Clasp By Günter Krauss, Stuttgart Around 1995

€ 18,890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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This necklace is a spectacular sight. Two dozen large, silvery gray pearls are strung in graduated rows. Their shape is individual, baroque and elongated. Their surfaces have a very good lustre and an iridescent overlay between pink and blue-green, so that their appearance changes with every movement. The large, up to 2.8 cm long sea treasures are held in place by a large clasp made of high-carat gold in the shape of a star. Its surface is matt so as not to compete too much with the shine of the pearls. At the same time, however, the star is of course the icing on the cake of the design. The necklace can be worn with the clasp at the nape of the neck or at the side. South Sea pearls are among the most precious and largest of all cultured pearls. The silver-lipped oyster Pinctada maxima, in which these pearls grow, only thrives in the crystal-clear waters of the warm tropical lagoons of the South Seas. Unlike freshwater pearls, which are cultivated in former rice fields in Asia, only a few pearls grow in South Sea mussels at a time and it takes several years for a pearl to mature inside the mussel. They are correspondingly rare and precious. The necklace comes from the studio of Stuttgart goldsmith Günter Krauss and is a unique handmade piece. It came to us from an important Stuttgart collection.

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South Sea pearls - actually South Sea cultured pearls - are a comparatively recent phenomenon in the history of pearl cultivation. For a long time, only Akoya pearls cultured in Japan were available in a quality that could compete with natural pearls. It was not until the late 1970s that pearls from various countries south of Japan came onto the world market. Japanese experts had successfully applied the knowledge of domestic pearl cultivation to the previously unused pearl mussel species Pinctada maxima, which can produce particularly large pearls - the "South Sea pearl" was born.

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€ 18,890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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