Return of the Power Pearls: the classic gemstones are enjoying a contemporary comeback

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Return of the Power Pearls: the classic gemstones are enjoying a contemporary comeback

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Pearls have been sought throughout the ages, and today's women are no exception. From Harper's Bazaar, here are a few selections on well known personalities that I hope you enjoy. :)

Return of the Power Pearls: the classic gemstones are enjoying a contemporary comeback

As seen on everyone from Kamala Harris and the Queen to Rihanna and and Angelina Jolie
By Kim Parker
Feb 22, 2021


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"If rubies are known as the king of gems, then pearls are definitely "the queen of gems and the gem of queens," as Grace Kelly once observed.

Officially the oldest known gemstone and the only one created by a living creature, the pearl has long been a symbol of wealth, sophistication and power, with none of the overtly glitzy associations given to other precious gems. Indeed, before cultured pearls were created in 1893, pearls were actually rarer than diamonds, making them exorbitantly expensive and the preserve of royalty (or the gods): strings of oyster pearls were offered up to Chinese kings as early as 2300BC; Homer rhapsodised about the goddess Juno’s "glittering" pearl earrings in the Iliad, in 762 BC; and fragments of pearl jewellery were discovered in the sarcophagus of Persian princess from 420BC, which now resides in the Louvre.

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European royals eventually followed suit and adopted their own power pearls. Catherine de Medici carried six ropes "of the largest pearls ever seen" when she travelled to France to be married in 1533; one was later given to her future daughter-in-law, Mary Queen of Scots, and ended up in the collection of ... "

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