Mother-of-pearl can be traced back to the Mesopotamians in 2500BC, and China’s Ming and Shang dynasties (the latter goes back to 1500BC). The Victorians, never ones to shy away from the ornate ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

A mother-of-pearl background gives it the right background to complement but not overwhelm. Buy now £148.00, Selfridges Garrard Wings Rising 18-karat white gold, mother-of-pearl and diamond earrings ...