Pearl – gemstone of Moon
Pearls have been known to man since ancient times. There are many legends explaining the origin of pearls. The nature of the pearl was unknown for a long time. Legends and various stories about pearls can be divided into two groups: some colorfully explain the origin of pearls, and others narrate about its unusual properties. The ancient Greeks believed they were frozen drops of dew. Pliny claimed that the pearls were daughters of mollusks and the moonlight.
Pearls also appear in myths. The ancient Greeks considered it a gemstone of Aphrodite, “born from the foam of the sea”. For the inhabitants of ancient Rome, it personified Venus and was a symbol of love.
For a long time, pearls were called tears of angels, fallen into the sea and collected at the bottom by sea oysters.
Pearls are produced by the soft tissue of a mollusk. A pearl is composed of calcium carbonate.
The ideal pearl has a white color and a silky shine. However, its color can be pink, yellow, gray and even black, depending on the mollusk that gave birth to the pearl.
There are also several types of freshwater mollusks, which give the so-called “river pearls”. It is smaller in size than the sea one, and has an elongated shape resembling rice.
Pearl has always been a powerful talisman. It is considered a gemstone of love and fertility.
The size of the pearls varies from a pin head to a quail egg. The largest pearls are La Peregrina, Regent with a mass of 30 and 85 carats, as well as the Pearl of Allah, recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Its weight is 6,035 kg. This unique pearl was found in 1934 in the South China Sea off the island of Palawan under tragic circumstances. One of the pearl hunters dived to a depth of ten meters, but did not swim to the surface in time. He was found dead at the bottom, with a hand clamped by the flaps of a huge Tridacna. To everyone’s surprise, in the middle of the Tridacna there was a gigantic pearl.
In some places of our planet, especially in Japan, the cultivation of pearls has turned into a real industry.
“Pearls are always right,” said Coco Chanel, and made pearls the most democratic decoration. She was the first to approve a combination of white pearls with a black sweater, a dark elegant jacket, a small black dress.
Pearl oxide helps people with cough, asthmatic attacks, tuberculosis, increased acidity of the stomach, dysfunction of the gallbladder. Some Vedic texts indicate the property of oxide to give strength and prolong life. Pearl powder has a diuretic effect and is considered an excellent remedy for disorders of the urinary tract. In addition, it is used for insomnia, bad smell from the mouth and burning in the stomach. Powder helps relieve tension and stress, overcome anger and irritation. It also helps to get rid of alcohol and drug addiction.
Pearl is a powerful symbol of light, purity, and femininity.
It protects from evil and fires, is an amulet from troubles and misfortunes, protects from deceptions and unfaithful friends. Contemplation of pearls brings peace, heals insomnia.
In the history of mankind, there is no period when pearls would lose their value. Probably the reason for this is its wonderful origin and amazing appearance, the tears of angels, the frozen light of the moon and other eternal miracles of this world.
Pearl – gemstone of Moon
- Yellow pearls
- The pearl of Allah
- Stunning pearl
- Royal crown with pearls
- Pretty pearl necklace
- Pink pearls
- Pendant with yellow cultivated pearls, mid-20th century
- Pendant with yellow cultivated pearls, mid-20th century
- Pendant with pearls, 1580, Italy
- Pendant with pearls, 1580, Germany
- Magnificent pearl
- La Regente pearl
- Graceful pearls
- Gorgeous pearl necklace and earrings
- Charming pearl necklace
- Brooch-pendant with pearls and diamonds, beginning of the twentieth century
- Black pearls
- Black and white pearls
- Beautiful tiara
- Beautiful pearl necklace
- Awesome pearl necklace
- Attractive pearl necklace
- Amazing pearl necklace
- Coco Chanel
Pearl in paintings
- Alonso Sanchez Coello. Infantas Isabella Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela of Spain. 1575
- Amalia Evgenia Elizabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperor Franz Josef I. Empress of Austria
- Anthony van Dyck. Amalia van Solms-Braunfels
- Augusta Amalia Louis of Bavaria, daughter of the King of Bavaria Maximilian I
- Botticelli
- Carolina Charlotte Augustus of Bavaria, daughter of the King of Bavaria Maximilian I
- Charles IX de France
- Chocholatz Josef
- Contemporary portrait of young Marie de Medici
- Countess Elizabeth Vorontsova-Dashkova
- Countess Gogonfelsen (Princess Olga Paley)
- Danish princess, wife of Edward VII, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India
- Eleonora de Toledo by Bronzino (Uffizi)
- Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon. Wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II
- Elizabeth I of England in Parliament Robes, Helmingham Hall, Stowmarket
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain
- Empress Alexandra Fedorovna
- Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with a pearl thread around her neck, 1901
- Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
- Empress Catherine I
- Empress Catherine II
- Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna, the wife of Emperor Alexander I
- F. Flameng. Portrait of Princess Z.N. Yusupova with the famous pearl Peregrina, 1894
- Francois Clouet. Margaret of Valois as a Young Princess
- Frans Pourbus the Younger. Isabella of France, Queen of Spain
- Franz Russ
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Portrait of Empress Eugenia, wife of Napoleon III
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Portrait of the English Princess Victoria, 1867
- Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
- Grand Princess Yelena Pavlovna
- Gustave Jean Jacquet
- Hans Maler. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. 1520
- Heinrich von Angeli. The Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, 1896
- Henry Collen. Victoria Duchess of Kent
- Hersent Louis
- Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, daughter of Queen Josephine
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal
- Isabella II, Queen of Spain
- Johannes Vermeer. The Girl With The Pearl Earring, 1665
- Josephine Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon I, the queen of France until 1809
- Josephine of Leuchtenberg, the grand daughter of Queen Josephine
- Ladislaus Wladislaw von Czachorski
- Lady by Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky
- Louise of Britain, daughter of Queen Victoria
- Louise of Prussia. Grand Duchess of Baden
- Margarita of Savoy. Queen of Italy
- Maria Alexandrovna preferred to weave pearl threads into her hair
- Maria Anna. Princess of Bavaria, consort queen of Saxony
- Maria Christine of Savoy. Queen of Both Sicilies
- Maria Cristina of Austria, Queen Consort of Spain, the second wife of King Alfonso XII of Spain
- Maria Eugenia Augustine de Montijo, Countess of Teba – Empress of France, the wife of Napoleon III
- Maria Henrietta of Habsburg-Lorraine. Queen of Belgium, the wife of the King of Belgium Leopold II
- Maria Letizia Bonaparte
- Maria Letizia Ramolino, mother of the Emperor of France Napoleon I
- Maria Louise of Wilhelmina, Princess of Bavaria
- Maria Louise Victoria Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Marie Amelie Therese de Bourbon
- Marie Antoinette
- Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. Portrait of a lady
- Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth Stuart of Bavaria, the Winter Queen
- Michiel van Mireveld. Portrait of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
- Nadezhda Polovtseva
- Peter Paul Rubens. Portrait of Anne of Austria
- Portrait de Mrs Andrew Lindington, vers Joseph Wright de Derby
- Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
- Portrait of Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo
- Portrait of Countess E.P. Sheremeteva, 1877
- Portrait of Empress Maria Fyodorovna by Ivan Kramskoy
- Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna
- Portrait of Princess Tatiana Vasilievna Yusupova
- Portrait of Princess Tatiana Yussupova, nee Ribаuрiеrrе (1828-1879)
- Portrait of Princess Zinaida Nikolaevna Yusupova in Russian costume
- Portrait of the Spanish Infanta Isabella
- Pourbus Frans, le Jeune
- Princess Beatrice
- Princess Elena, daughter of Queen Victoria
- Princess Elizabeth by Robert Peake
- Princess Marianne of the Netherlands
- Princess Tatiana Yulupova
- Princess Tatyana Alexandrovna Yusupova
- Princesses Anastasia, Tatyana, Maria, Olga Romanova
- Queen Elizabeth I. Nicholas Hilliard
- Sofia Naryshkina
- Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, wife of the King of Bavaria, Ludwig I
- Victoria Adelaide Maria Louise, Princess of Great Britain
- Victoria Louise of Prussia, daughter of the German Emperor Wilhelm II
- Victoria Maria Auguste Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes van Teck, the wife of George V
- Victoria of Baden, wife of the King of Sweden Gustav V, Queen of Sweden
- Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- William Paxton. Pearl necklace, 1908