Nature’s Repository? Pearl Fishing and Environments in the Americas and Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Abstract: The early modern period was “the great age of pearls.” Portraits of rulers, aristocrats and elites in both Europe and Asia show the abundant use of pearls in jewellery and clothing. Sought after for their lustre and their symbolism, pearls were a marine material transformed into the most a...
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2024
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