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US$400,000-625,000
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Lot X is an extraordinary necklace of 518.23 carats consisting only of rare round to near round non-nacreous white pearls - the first of its kind ever offered for sale. White non-nacreous pearls are uncommon in the world of pearls; they can exhibit all possible shapes and can come in sizes of up to several hundred carats. Such pearls above a few carats are usually not perfectly symmetrical and generally large pearls are rather irregularly shaped. In this necklace, the pearls are all round to near round, weigh in average more than 16 carats, are graduated perfectly and are crowned by an extraordinary round pearl of 19 mm. The importance of this graduated strand of such exceptional un-worked pearls is evident when keeping in mind that an un-worked round non-nacreous white pearl by itself is a great rarity.
Non-nacreous pearls of any colour can exhibit another important feature which adds to their rarity and beauty - the flame pattern. This pattern is caused by the fibrous nature of the aragonite and the arrangement of these tiny aragonite fibres, depending on the size, thickness and arrangement of the fibres, the flame pattern can be microscopically and macroscopically absent, microscopically visible or visible to the naked eye. In the best pearls the flame pattern is obvious to the eye and distributed all over the pearls' surface. White non-nacreous pearls show the entire range of flame pattern qualities and the best motifs can usually be found on smaller pieces while the large pearls often lack the obvious eye-visible flame pattern. In this necklace all with the exception of one of the smallest pearls of the necklace exhibit this characteristic flame pattern. In 24 of the 31 pearls this flame pattern was found to be eye-visible over practically the entire surface and to be fine to extraordinarily fine. Assembling such a collection of non-nacreous natural pearls of this quality represents an exceptional treasure.
天然珍珠鍊，附SSEF及GIA證書，配以鑽石及珍珠，鑲18k白金及黑金，
33顆天然珍珠直徑9.4-19.0毫米，項鍊長度63.0公分
細節
天然珍珠鍊，附SSEF及GIA證書，配以鑽石及珍珠，鑲18k白金及黑金，
33顆天然珍珠直徑9.4-19.0毫米，項鍊長度63.0公分
33顆天然珍珠直徑9.4-19.0毫米，項鍊長度63.0公分
榮譽呈獻
Ellen Mok
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