Pearl nose rings, Baroda, India. East Indian earring of strings of pearls and table diamonds. Grape pendants. Oriental pearls 345 Necklace containing 126,000 seed-pearls, Louis XVI period 346 Seed-pearls and gold; Chinese ornaments of the nineteenth century. Complete set of seed-pearl jewelry in original case 357 Persian princess and ladies in waiting 364 Facsimiles of the title-page and last leaf of an enactment abolishing duty on pearls, English Parliament, 1732 368 Pearl drilling 376 Pearl stringing 383 Necklace of seed-pearls, United States, Civil War period 389 Mother-of-pearl shell from Tahiti 390 Ladies’ sewing case and scissors inlaid with half-pearls; watches incrusted with half-pearls; snuff-box, ivory inlaid with fresh-water pearls; miniature surrounded by half-pearls 395 Evolution of a seed-pearl brooch. Seed-pearls, Indian strings. White horsehair for stringing 396 Facsimile of letter of M. Gaston Mogeaud, Director of the Louvre 398 Madame Thiers’s pearl necklace, bequeathed to the Louvre Museum, Paris 398 (From a photograph by A. Giraudon) Antique ornaments of pearls 404 Tyszkiewizc bronze statuette of Aphrodite 407 Pearl earrings from Herculaneum and Pompeii 408 Antique pearl ornaments 410 East Indian necklace of pearls, table diamonds, glass beads, gold and enamel 413 Crown of Reccesvinthus and other Gothic crowns of the seventh century 416 (From a photograph by A. Giraudon) Her Majesty, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India 418 (From a photograph by W. & D. Downey, London) Crown of St. Edward 424 (From “The English Regalia,” published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Ltd., London) The Empress Dowager of China 431 Pearl ornaments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 434 Margherita, Dowager Queen of Italy 439 Collection of black pearls belonging to an American lady 440