More than five hundred years ago, Botticelli painted the most famous woman ever to arrive from the sea: standing on a shell, "pure and perfect as a pearl" — so says the museum that keeps her. Classical tradition calls that image Venus Anadyomene: Greek for she who rises. Not a woman born upon reaching land — one who arrives already whole. This piece carries a whole mother-of-pearl shell — the very shell where pearls are born — strung on pearls of its same substance. For the woman who crossed her own sea, of water or of life, and came ashore exactly who she is.
One of a kind Natural mother-of-pearl shell on a triple strand of cultured freshwater rice pearls 18k gold-plated clasp and details (3 microns) — hypoallergenic, nickel-free Length: 20" + 2" extender
