The most expensive pearl ever sold was Marie Antoinette's pendant ... the debris with nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the same material that lines the inner layer of its shell. It continues doing ...

The most expensive pearl ever sold was Marie Antoinette's pendant ... the debris with nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the same material that lines the inner layer of its shell. It continues doing ...

Mother-of-pearl ... thickness to render the shell an object of manufacture. The genus ot shell-fish, Pentadinrz, furnishas the finest pearls as well as mo-ther-ot-pearl: it is found round the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Jukkit Suksawat a Thai artist who has been creating traditional mother-of-pearl inlay for the past 30 years. He is determined to keep this 14th-century tradition ...