• Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Faerber/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    An Henri Vever corsage brooch from 1905, featuring Mississipi pearls, diamonds, enamel, gold and silver from 

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Brooch, c. 1920, natural pearls, diamonds, lapis-lazuli, platinum.
    Private collection.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Van Cleef & Arpels, Gladiator brooch, 1956, yellow gold, emeralds, rubies, turquoise, pearls, baroque pearl, diamonds.
    Collection Van Cleef & Arpels.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Albion Art Jewellery Institute/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Frédéric Boucheron, necklace and earrings of Edith Amelia Glyn, Lady Wolverton, 1896–1902, natural pearls,
    diamonds, gold, silver.
    Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Albion Art Jewellery Institute/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    “Belle Epoque” five strand natural pearl
    necklace, circa 1910, natural pearls, platinum.
    Private Collection, courtesy of the Albion
    Art Institute.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Benjamin Chelly/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    René Lalique (1860 – 1945), ring, c. 1910, natural pearl, diamonds, enamel,
    yellow gold.
    Private collection.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Collection Éric Landau/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Necklace, 1900, natural pearl, diamonds, platinum.
    Collection Templier.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Germain Bapst (1853-1921) and Lucien Falize (1839-1897), pendant, c. 1880,
    grey natural pearls, diamonds, gold.
    London, Wartski.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Benjamin Chelly/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Brooch, c. 1925, natural pearls, diamonds, platinum.
    Private collection.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Albion Art Jewellery Institute/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Carlo and Arturo Giuliano, necklace, c. 1890, natural pearls, enamel, gold. Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Katharina Faerber/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Pearl necklace, c. 1880, natural pearls, diamonds, gold, silver.
    Collection Faerber.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Albion Art Jewellery Institute/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Necklace, 1890, natural pearls, diamonds, gold, silver.
    Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Benjamin Chelly/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Necklace, c. 1910, natural pearl, diamonds, white gold, platinum.
    Private collection.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of Katharina Faerber

    Georges Fouquet (1862 – 1957), ring, c. 1920, natural pearl, diamonds,
    platinum.
    Collection Faerber

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    KC8ACK The Pearl Necklace, 1900s, Platinum print, Photographs, Frank Eugene (American, New York 1865–1936 Munich
    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Frank Eugene (1865–1936), The Pearl, 1900–1909. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    George Barbier, “The Fountain of Shells. Paquin Evening Gown,”
    Gazette du bon ton, no. 3, plate 27, 1914.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Albion Art Jewellery Institute/Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Owl pendant, c. 1880, baroque pearl, diamonds, rubies, gold.
    Private Collection, courtesy of Albion Art Institute.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    René Boivin, half set, bracelet and clip, inspired by the “Barbare” series, 1935–1937, granulated gold, natural pearls.
    La Galerie parisienne.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Van Cleef & Arpels, evening bag, 1924, platinum, pearls, onyx, diamonds.
    Collection Van Cleef & Arpels.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Van Cleef & Arpels, vanity case, c. 1925, yellow gold, pearls, enamel, diamonds.
    Collection Van Cleef & Arpels.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    JAR, Sheep’s head brooch, 2006, natural pearls, cabochon star sapphires, aluminum, silver, gold. Private collection.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Dusausoy brooch circa 1930 innatural pearls, diamonds, platinum.
    London, Symbolic & Chase.

  • Exhibit at the Van Cleef & Arpels School of Jewelry Arts

    Image Credit: Courtesy of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

    Jean-Gabriel Domergue, advertisement for Van Cleef & Arpels from 1923.

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    Jewelry in the “Paris, City of Pearls” exhibition include this owl pendant featurign a baroque pearl, part of Albion Art Institute’s collection; a 1900 necklace, part of the Templier collection; and a floral corsage brooch by Henri Vever.

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