Pearls - an exhibition in the V&A Museum, LondonArchived Message
Posted by Barbara D. on November 13, 2013, 5:29 am
Last week I spent some days in London and also went to the V&A museum to see the exhibition "Pearls". And I wasn't dissappointed!
Beside a lot of information about how and why pearls grow and how they are harvested, a huge amount of lovely pearl jewellery was on display - both historic and contemporary.
My personal highlight were the tiaras. Among them The Rosebery Tiara (sold at Christie's in 2011, and I guess, bought by the Qatar Museum Authority) and Lady Raine Spencer's pearl tiara. At the time of the Rosebery Tiara's auction, I wasn't so impressed by the jewel from the pictures, but it has grown on me when seeing it in real...a truly lovely gem .