#south sea pearl and diamond earrings

[gemville]

Margot McKinney Kiss Earrings In Black and White Diamonds With Detachable South Sea Pearl Drops

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South Sea Pearl earrings

Exoticgold Jewelry presents South Sea Pearl earrings, a symbol of refined elegance and luxury. Handpicked for their exceptional luster, these pearls are expertly set to create exquisite pieces that elevate any ensemble. Embrace sophistication with these timeless treasures, perfect for every occasion.

[liljenquistbeckstead]

Mikimoto Cultured Pearl Jewelry | Earrings and Necklace in MD, VA

Add a touch of elegance to any outfit with Mikimoto pearl jewelry at Liljenquist & Beckstead. We offer authentic South Sea pearl accessories and cultured pearl jewelry.

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Mikimoto 18K Pink Gold Akoya White Diamond 0.26Ct Pearl Earrings

Mikimoto Akoya Pearl Earrings: Akoya Pearl A+ 8mm (2): White Diamond 0.26ct (108): 18KPG.

[certifiedfinejewellry]

Throughout the guide, we will focus on the exquisite pearl necklace and the alluring pendant chain. So, get ready to dive into a sea of elegance and beauty as we uncover the secrets of sapphire pearl jewelry. Read more: https://shorturl.at/qAEOY

[latitudejewellers]

Shop Our Extensive Selection Of Australia Engagement Rings

If you are searching for the best engagement ring in Australia, you have come to the right place. At Latitude Jewellers, our superior product collection has made us a leading supplier of quality jewellery. Our Australia Engagement Rings have become the preferred option for couples to celebrate relationships and love with those around them. We are a family-owned and operated business that takes great pride in helping our customers find the perfect engagement ring for their special someone. When you visit our retail store, one of our experienced advisors will be happy to help you select from our stunning collection or create a truly unique custom design.

[singing-river]

south sea pearl diamond cluster drop earring

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2023

6 MAY 2023 || The Princess of Wales attended the Coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey in London.

Catherine was in -

↬ Bespoke Ivory BallGown with Silver Embroidery of Thistle, Shamrock, Rose & Daffodil by Alexander McQueen

↬ Princess Diana's South Sea Pearl Drop Earrings

↬ Queen Elizabeth's George VI Diamond Festoon Necklace (possibly)

↬ Royal Victorian Order Mantle

↬ Bespoke Silver Bullion & Crystal Oak Leaf Headpiece with silver threadwork by Jess Collett x Alexander McQueen

↬ 'Gianvito 105' Pumps in White Silk from Gianvito Rossi

[fatehbaz]

In 1678, a Chaldean priest from Baghdad reached the Imperial Villa of Potosí, the world’s richest silver-mining camp and at the time the world’s highest city at more than 4,000 metres (13,100 feet) above sea level. A regional capital in the heart of the Bolivian Andes, Potosí remains – more than three and a half centuries later – a mining city today. [...] The great red Cerro Rico or ‘Rich Hill’ towered over the city of Potosí. It had been mined since 1545 [...]. When Don Elias arrived [...], the great boom of 1575-1635 – when Potosí alone produced nearly half the world’s silver – was over, but the mines were still yielding the precious metal. [...]

On Potosí’s main market plaza, indigenous and African women served up maize beer, hot soup and yerba mate. Shops displayed the world’s finest silk and linen fabrics, Chinese porcelain, Venetian glassware, Russian leather goods, Japanese lacquerware, Flemish paintings and bestselling books in a dozen languages. [...]

Pious or otherwise, wealthy women clicked Potosí’s cobbled streets in silver-heeled platform shoes, their gold earrings, chokers and bracelets studded with Indian diamonds and Burmese rubies. Colombian emeralds and Caribbean pearls were almost too common. Peninsular Spanish ‘foodies’ could savour imported almonds, capers, olives, arborio rice, saffron, and sweet and dry Castilian wines. Black pepper arrived from Sumatra and southwest India, cinnamon from Sri Lanka, cloves from Maluku and nutmeg from the Banda Islands. Jamaica provided allspice. Overloaded galleons spent months transporting these luxuries across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans. Plodding mule and llama trains carried them up to the lofty Imperial Villa.

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Potosi supplied the world with silver, the lifeblood of trade and sinews of war [...]. In turn, the city consumed the world’s top commodities and manufactures. [...] The city’s dozen-plus notaries worked non-stop inventorying silver bars and sacks of pesos [...]. Mule trains returning from the Pacific brought merchandise and mercury, the essential ingredient for silver refining. [...] From Buenos Aires came slavers with captive Africans from Congo and Angola, transshipped via Rio de Janeiro. Many of the enslaved were children branded with marks mirroring those, including the royal crown, inscribed on silver bars.

Soon after its 1545 discovery, Potosí gained world renown [...]. Mexico’s many mining camps [...] peaked only after 1690. [...] Even in the Andes of South America there were other silver cities [...]. But no silver deposit in the world matched the Cerro Rico, and no other mining-refining conglomeration grew so large. Potosí was unique: a mining metropolis.

Thus Don Elias, like others, made the pilgrimage to the silver mountain. It was a divine prodigy, a hierophany. In 1580, Ottoman artists depicted Potosí as a slice of earthly paradise, the Cerro Rico lush and green, the city surrounded by crenellated walls. Potosí, as Don Quixote proclaimed, was the stuff of dreams. Another alms seeker, in 1600, declared the Cerro Rico the Eighth Wonder of the World. A [...] visitor in 1615 gushed: ‘Thanks to its mines, Castile is Castile, Rome is Rome, the pope is the pope, and the king is monarch of the world.’ [...]

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For all its glory, Potosí was also the stuff of nightmares [...].

Almost a century before Don Elias visited Potosí, Viceroy Francisco de Toledo revolutionised world silver production. Toledo was a hard-driving bureaucrat of the Spanish empire [...]. Toledo reached Potosí in 1572, anxious to flip it into the empire’s motor of commerce and war. By 1575, the viceroy had organised a sweeping labour draft, launched a ‘high-tech’ mill-building campaign, and overseen construction of a web of dams and canals to supply the Imperial Villa with year-round hydraulic power, all in the high Andes at the nadir of the Little Ice Age. Toledo also oversaw construction of the Potosí mint, staffed full-time with enslaved Africans. [...] Toledo’s successes came with a steep price. Thanks to the viceroy’s ‘reforms’, hundreds of thousands of Andeans became virtual refugees (those who survived) and, in the search for timber and fuel, colonists denuded hundreds of miles of fragile, high-altitude land. [...] The city’s smelteries belched lead and zinc-rich smoke [...].

The Habsburg kings of Spain cared little about Potosí’s social and environmental horrors. [...] For more than a century, the Cerro Rico fuelled the world’s first global military-industrial complex, granting Spain the means to prosecute decades-long wars on a dozen fronts – on land and at sea. No one else could do all this and still afford to lose. [...]

By [...] 1909 [...], mineral rushes had helped to produce cities such as San Francisco and Johannesburg, but nothing quite compared for sheer audacity with the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a neo-medieval mining metropolis perched in the Andes of South America.

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Text by: Kris Lane. “Potosi: the mountain of silver that was the first global city.” Aeon. 30 July 2019. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[theroyalsims]

COUNTESS ELEANORE’S SPECIAL WEDDING ENSEMBLE HONOURED GENERATIONS OF ROYAL WOMEN

As more photos of Countess E’s big day are released, online sleuths and royal enthusiasts everywhere have been on the case to try and look into the many special details of the wedding, especially E’s wedding ensemble.

The bride wore a pearl and diamond tiara, first thought to be a new piece made especially for E. However, a royal jewellery blog identified it as a family heirloom that originally belonged to the late Queen Astrid of Brindleton. 

(Above: A young Queen Astrid (then Princess Astrid of Henford) is the original owner of E’s wedding tiara.)

Queen Astrid was born a Princess of Henford before she married into the Brindelton Royal Family. She is the mother of King Leopold, thus making her Countess E’s maternal great-grandmother. The tiara, which has since been named the Queen Astrid Palm Tiara, was a wedding gift from the people of Henford to the soon-to-be Queen. Queen Astrid rarely wore the piece, instead opting for grander pieces (royal historians say she had a thing for jewellery and was dubbed a fashion icon in her time), but she did wear the piece for an official portrait, and this is the only photo of the tiara being worn - until yesterday. 

The diamond and pearl diadem features a delicate palm leaf motif, alternating with natural south sea pearls. Thought to have been lost or dismantled, it’s great to see it finally out of the royal vault, and for such a special occasion, too. Countess E’s tiara of choice is also said to be in honour of her husband. The Al-Simhara Palm is Al-Simhara’s “national plant.” Ibrahim, of course, is the former Crown Prince of the oil-rich kingdom. 

(Above: Aside from wearing her great-grandma’s tiara, Countess E also wore another vintage piece - her grandmother’s dress.)

The tiara also perfectly matched the embroidery of Countess E’s dress, which, in itself is also very special. Although a few royal fans were “disappointed” by E’s “too simple” wedding dress, she apparently chose it for a very special reason.

The dress is actually a vintage piece, designed by the now-defunct fashion house, Harman Northelle, and was originally made for the late Queen Ophelia. 

The Queen wore it twice: once for the opening of parliament, and again for a formal portrait. The short-sleeved number features a voluminous skirt and a fully-embroidered bodice. The dress looks to have been altered for E by adding a short (probably removable) train.

Countess E never met Queen Ophelia, her maternal grandmother, but it’s nice to see how she managed to include her late grandma in her wedding.

(Above: E’s something borrowed was a pair of diamond drop earrings belonging to her mum, Queen Emilia.)

Finally, E’s only other jewellery (aside from her ring and tiara, of course) was a pair of diamond drop earrings. A fashion blog identified it to be Queen Emilia’s. The earrings were a gift from the Queen’s younger siblings, Princess Alice and Prince Leonard, on the occasion of her 18th birthday. The Queen (then Crown Princess) was first photographed wearing the sparklers during a trip to the botanical gardens many years ago. 

The bride’s entire wedding ensemble was in honour of generations of royal women, and that’s so unexpected of E and we’re loving it! Who knew E had a sentimental side to her? 

[gemville]

Iridiana Earrings by Karina Choudhrie

Emeralds

Tanzanites

Pink Sapphires

Yellow Sapphires

Spessartite Garnets

South Sea Pearl

Diamonds

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[saintmeghanmarkle]

Les Cartier de Meghan Part 5: So long and Tanks for all the fish by u/Mickleborough

Les Cartier de Meghan, Part 5: So long, and Tanks for all the fish To wrap up the ramblings of Cartier, Meghan, and That Watch.As far as I can tell, the Tank wasn’t particularly associated with Diana in her lifetime - not like, say, the Cambridge Lover’s Knot Tiara; the Lady Dior bag; or even the Revenge Dress, worn with the equally famous sapphire and pearl choker. It was just a watch she wore after her divorce.Apparently William and Harry were allowed to choose some pieces from her personal jewellery collection as mementos. Why did William select the Tank? Perhaps, at age 14 in 1996, when she began to wear it, that made the most impression on him. Perhaps he associated watches with her - the Prince of Wales has been seen wearing only 1 watch, the comparatively inexpensive Omega Seamaster Quartz 300m, rumoured to have been a gift from his mother when he was at Eton.For most of her marriage, Diana wore (and was photographed with) the watch that the then Prince Charles gave her for her 20th birthday, weeks before their wedding: a Patek Philippe Calatrava.Diana rocking the 2 watch look before anyone else: his and hers Pateks.In short, Meghan’s not wearing some significant piece from Diana’s collection. The Tank seems to have gained some notoriety only because she’s been seen wearing it. Otherwise, it’s arguably unremarkable - certainly not as well-known as the Ceylon sapphire and diamond engagement ring now on the finger of the Princess of Wales.And it’s very possible that, of all of Diana’s watches, Meghan prefers the Tank (so called because it’s meant to resemble a tank from above) because it’s gold, recognisable, from a well-known house (although, from a watchmaker’s perspective, Patek Philippe and many others are held in higher regard than Cartier), and can be displayed in a flashy manner - as Meghan often does.Not a diamond bracelet, but the Swiss Federal Republic watch, a platinum and diamond Vacheron Constantin given by Switzerland to the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1947 on the occasion of her marriage, and which she later gave to Diana. Oh Meghan! Aren’t they the South Sea pearl and diamond earrings, which the Princess of Wales has worn a few times?PostscriptWearing watches seems to be a generational thing. The late Queen Elizabeth II had several watches, from the best watchmakers. So does the King. In contrast, the Prince of Wales seems to have just the one watch, the Omega Seamaster from his mother (cost: low 4 figures). The Princess of Wales often sports her 3rd wedding anniversary present from her husband, a Cartier Ballon Bleu in stainless steel (also costing low 4 figures) - on other occasions, she wears a Tissot (not even 4 figures).Thank you for staying until the end! post link: https://ift.tt/l7Z8WS5 author: Mickleborough submitted: September 26, 2023 at 11:29PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[giricollections]

South Sea Pearl and Diamond Earrings

Add glow to your appearance with this stylish pair of South Sea Pearl and Diamond Earrings in 18K Gold. Versatile enough to be worn on every occasion and make memories.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Sterling Silver Rainbow Black Pearl Ring.

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@florencepugh / Met Gala / May 1, 2023.

Wearing:

@maisonvalentino Custom Gown ($N/A)

@maisonvalentino Spring 2023 Couture Satin Platform Heels ($N/A)

@tiffanyandco Jazz South Sea Pearl Earrings ($6,200)

@tiffanyandco Victoria Earrings ($6,200)

@mariatash Diamond Star Threaded Stud Earring - Gold 5.5mm ($695)

@mariatash Diamond Star Threaded Stud Earring - Gold 4.5mm ($430)

@mariatash Pearl Drape Threaded Stud Earring ($295)

@tiffanyandco Victoria Vine Tennis Bracelet ($55,000)

@tiffanyandco Victoria Cluster Tennis Bracelet ($62,000)

@tiffanyandco Victoria Cluster Tennis Bracelet ($52,000)

@tiffanyandco Victoria Tennis Bracelet ($68,000)

@tiffanyandco Circlet Bracelet ($N/A)

@tiffanyandco Victoria Tennis Bracelet ($26,500)

@tiffanyandco Septum Piercing ($N/A)

Hair by: @peterluxhair

Makeup by: @babskymakeup

Nails by: @nailglam

Styled by: @rebeccacorbinmurray

[bopiesjewelers]

The Most Anticipated Earring Trends of 2024

With so many pieces of jewelry on the market, you need to decide what custom engagement ring in Fayetteville, NC to get. If you’re trying to upgrade your jewelry this year, then here are some of the top earring trends to choose from.

Let’s explore some of the trends for this year.

Hoops

There are a lot of hoop unique gemstones in Fayetteville, NC from delicate simple versions to large, chunky styles. You can even pick hoops that have a unique texture like braided or twisted or even something smaller like huggies. While hoop earrings come in yellow gold and platinum, you can even choose one in rose gold for a chic and romantic feel.

For something affordable, look for sterling silver hoop earrings that are cost-effective. You can even add designs or smaller gemstones to them.

Pearl earrings

Your jewelry repair in Fayetteville, NC will tell you that pearl earrings have quickly become sought-after for their chic and elegant feel. Freshwater pearls are more cost-effective than ocean pearls and pair beautifully with diamonds, offering a timeless appeal.

Look for high-end pearls in white, pink, or even golden that are of good quality. South Sea pearls are large and lustrous but can be a tad pricier. Some women even choose Baroque pearls that are soulful and vintage inspired.

Pearls are delicate so you need to care for them properly as they can easily chip or break.

In Summary

Make sure to take your pieces to a professional every couple of months to clean, repair, and maintain them so that they look new and shiny for years to come. Your jeweler will check the setting and polish the stones to keep them in good condition.

You should also get your pieces certified and appraised before you leave the store.