1. Enameled Sea Dragon Pendant with Baroque Pearl
2. Detail of Pearl Diving from Catalan Atlas
3. Jacopo Zucchi, Treasures of the Sea, or Allegory of the Discovery of America
4. Quentin Metsys, The Moneylender and His Wife
5. José de Alcíbar (attributed to), “De español y negra, mulato”
6. Lead Box Containing Pearls of Varying Sizes and Shapes
7. Albert Eckhout, African Woman and Child
8. Pierre Mignard, Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth
9. Simon Verelst, Eleanor (“Nell”) Gwynn
10. Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
11. Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
12. Johann Georg Hinz, Cabinet of Collectibles
13. Johann Melchior Dinglinger (goldsmith), Moor with Monstrous Pearl Shell
1 Enameled Sea Dragon Pendant with Baroque Pearl
2 Detail of Pearl Diving from Catalan Atlas
3 Alonso Sánchez Coello, The Infantas Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela
4 Diego de Velázquez, Isabella of Bourbon, First Queen of King Philip IV
5 Quentin Metsys, The Moneylender and His Wife
8 Pearl-Fishing Canoe with Black Divers
9 A Modern Rendition of the Coat of Arms Granted in 1600 to Margarita
10 Elizabeth I, 1533–1603 (the “Armada Portrait”)
11 Jacopo Zucchi, Treasures of the Sea, or Allegory of the Discovery of America
12 Alessando Allori, A Pearl Diver
13 Alessando Allori, Pesca delle Perle
14 Giovanni Stradano, Pearl Diving
15 Hernando de Torres to Cristóbal de Salazar, Jan. 18, 1586
17 José de Alcíbar (attributed to), “De español y negra, mulato”
18 Lead Box Containing Pearls of Varying Sizes and Shapes
19 Albert Eckhout, African Woman and Child
20 Pierre Mignard, Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth
21 Simon Verelst, Eleanor (“Nell”) Gwynn
22 Caspar Luyken, after Jan Luyken, De Peerelgaater
23 Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
24 Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring
25 Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
26 Four Modes of Pearl Fishing
28 Johann Georg Hinz, Cabinet of Collectibles
30 Johann Melchior Dinglinger (goldsmith), Moor with Monstrous Pearl Shell
1 Select Locations of Early Modern Pearl Production and Commerce
2 The Pearl Coast in the Greater Caribbean
3 Key Sites of Pearl Fishing in the Early Americas
4 Key Sites of Pearl Extraction in the Indian Ocean
5 Key Iberian Pearl-Trading Ports
6 Select Northern European Sites of Pearl Extraction and Commerce