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Originally Posted by ghperiwinkle
Kind of like the Vermeer-esque drops ...
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I tend to agree with the mainstream view that the over-sized pearl drops in Vermeer's paintings are portraits of a locally desirable look and the fake pearls of the day. To match the shape and size of the one in the Girl with Pearl Earring portrait would mean wearing something the size of a small light bulb hung upside down (near round, nearly 4cm; the pearl imitation of the day would have been a glass boulle coated with a pearly lacquer on the inside = something like a small light bulb). Great use of artistic license, awful jewelry design...
On the other hand, wouldn't mind some large pearls of whatever kind. Freshwater drops get to 30mm and even the ones with naturalistic keshi-like shapes are not bad [
Scroll down here for one at Barbara Smigel's AcStones]. Frankly, I have yet to find a well-formed, symmetrical one near that size, but they must be somewhere judging from the sheer quantity of crooked ones that are out there. Any idea?