Necklace Collection (page 17)

Francois Comte LA Motte
FRANCOIS HENRI comte de LA MOTTE - French aristocrat whose wife Jeanne, mistress of the cardinal de Rohan, masterminded the scandalous Diamond Necklace affair. Date: CIRCA 1785

Jeanne Comtesse LA Motte
JEANNE de St.REMY de VALOIS, COMTESSE DE LA MOTTE French adventuress who masterminded the Diamond Necklace Affair implicating Marie Antoinette and others. Date: 1756 - 1791

Tatler photoshoot -- still life of jewellery. 1959

Advertisement for Nescafe -- female model with tray. 1959

Pretty Hungarian Girl reclining amongst cushions Date: circa 1925

French Opera star - Marguerite Carrere-Xanrof (1869-?) - Soprano. Date: circa 1910

Four young Zulu children enjoy an early breakfast Date: circa 1903

Fine portrait of a Zulu Woman, South Africa - Intombe River region. Date: circa 1901

Smiling Zulu Woman and child, South Africa Date: circa 1901

Grand Chief Bernando and Family - Central African Republic Date: circa 1910s

Profile portrait of a beautiful Masai woman - Kenya
A stunning profile portrait of a beautiful Masai woman - Kenya. Note the elongated earlobe piercing and remarkably decorative hair braiding. Date: circa 1930s

Maria Jose - Princess of Piedmont
Marie Jose of Belgium (Marie Jose Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle) (19062001) - the last Queen of Italy. Her 35-day tenure as queen consort earned her the nickname " The May

Vietnam - Traditional costume of woman from Chinese border
Vietnam - Traditional costume of woman from Chinese / Vietnamese border region. Date: circa 1904

Vietnamese Beauty from My To, Tien Giang Province
A delightful photographic study of a beautiful Vietnamese girl from My Tho (the capital city of Tien Giang Province, located in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam)

Oriental beauty reclining on a divan
Oriental beauty (yet to open her wardrobe that morning) reclining on a divan. Date: 1914

Princess Yolanda of Italy and her children, Maria Ludovica Calvi di Bergolo and Giorgio Calvi di Bergolo. Princess Yolanda Margherita Milena Elisabetta Romana Maria of Savoy (1901 - 1986)

One of the Sultans Concubines from the Harem - Turkey
One of the Sultans Concubines (an Odalisque) from the Harem - Turkey. Date: circa 1907

Fashionable French girl with floral cap, large purple flowers, string of beads and a smart handbag - the height of late 1920s chic. Date: circa 1929

Striking Arabian Girl - Morocco. Note the primitive-form Hamsa (Fatimas hand) amulet, worn throughout the Middle East and North Africa

Northeastern Vietnam - Woman of the Lo Lo People (Yi People)
Vietnam - Dong Van, a rural district of Ha Giang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam - Woman of the Lo Lo People (Yi People). Date: 1905

Arabian Dancers - Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1902

A Beauty of the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands
A Beauty of the island of Rarotonga, part of the Cook Islands. Date: circa 1920s

Norwegian Bride from Hardanger in Tradtional Costume
Norwegian Bride from Hardanger, Norway wearing traditional marital costume, including the famous crown headdress worn by the bride. Date: 1902

Sullen Russian girl seated in the undergrowth
Sullen Russian country girl (in need of a good joke) seated in the undergrowth. Date: circa 1902

Sudanese street curio seller - Port Said, Egypt. Just the man if you were short of a string of beads for a night out. Date: circa 1910s

A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - Siberia, Russia
A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - the largest indigenous group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia

Pretty Young Senegalese girl with braided hair and necklace
Pretty Young Senegalese girl with braided hair and large necklace. Date: circa 1910s

The Broken Necklace - smart Parisian dinner guests aid in the retrieval of the fallen pieces of a rather flustered young ladys necklace. Date: circa 1910s

Soviet Armenia - Collective Woman - Armenian Farmer
Beautiful photographic portrait from Soviet Armenia - Collective Woman - Armenian Farmer. Date: circa 1930s

Woman from Vietnam - Tonkin
Woman from Northern Vietnam - Tonkin region, close to the Chinese border - wearing a fantastic vertigious turban headdress and a metal circlet around her neck. Date: circa 1910s

Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova
Alix of Hesse and by Rhine later Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (18721918) - Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Date: circa 1909

A Languid girl from Southern Russia
Languor A pretty girl from one of the southern Turcic States of Russia with her hand placed luxuriantly behind her neck - giving the a; ppearance of a dreamy, lazy mood (hence the title of the piece)

Antonida - Glinka Opera - Bobroff
Antonida, a character from the patriotic-heroic tragic opera A LIfe for the Tsar by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. Date: 1902

Opal necklace given to the museum in 1958

Baltic amber jewellery
Matching necklace and earring set made of Baltic amber. Borrowed from Wendy Turner Coates. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule Fig. 22

Amber pendant
An amber pendant with circular cracks known as sun spangles which are produced by heating the amber. Borrowed from Goldmajor Ltd. Image is from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Rubellite (Tourmaline) decoratively carved pendant. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Edwardian necklace
A necklace containing fake amber beads. Included are celluloid, phenolic resin, casein and glass beads. Fig. 11 from Amber The Natural Time Capsule

Native necklace of fossil foraminifera (Alveolinae)
Native necklace of fossil foraminifera from John Whittakers cabinet, fossils dating from the Eocene Limestone, Sindh, India

Porosphaera (sponge) necklace
Necklace of Porosphaera beads from the Bronze Age, Higham Marshes, near Rochester, Kent. From the neck of a crouched skeleton in a stone-lined grave

Lapis lazuli
Beads of lapis lazuli, with rough lapis lazuli, from Afghanistan. Lapis lazuli (sodium calcium aluminum silicate sulphur sulphate) is a rich blue opaque, semi-precious stone

Nephrite jade pendant
A nephrite jade pendant with inlaid mother-of-pearl eyes. Specimen orginates from New Zealand

Arachnids in an amber pendant
Two arachnids (Phalaphium sp.) harvestman and (Oxyopes sp.) lynx spider trapped and preserved in amber. The amber has been made into a pendant for a necklace

Bronze Age necklace made of Porosphaera
The fossil sponge Porosphaera can be found within Britains Cretaceous chalk. This necklace of 79 Porosphaera specimens was found around the neck of a skeleton dating back 4

Ostrea sp. oyster with pearls
Oysters are bivalve molluscs found on the sea bed. Pearls, are smooth, spherical objects which can form inside their shells. They are considered valuable and are farmed and used to make jewellery

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