ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

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

FIGURES

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

6 Modern Middens

7 “Mantte” and “Conche”

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

16 Diving Suit (1623)

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

27 Baroque Pearl Boat Hatpin

28 Johann Georg Hinz, Cabinet of Collectibles

29 Brooch of an African

30 Johann Melchior Dinglinger (goldsmith), Moor with Monstrous Pearl Shell

MAPS

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