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2. Rhinestone - Wikipedia

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   Rhinestone. Historic rhinestone copy of the Florentine Diamond, made in 1865 in Paris by the L. Saemann company [1] Rhinestones on a tiara. Rowenta enamel rhinestone compact. A rhinestone, paste or diamante is a diamond simulant originally made from rock crystal but since the 19th century from crystal glass or polymers such as acrylic .

3. Costume jewelry - Wikipedia

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   He is probably best known for his three-strand faux pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush to her husband's inaugural ball. In many instances, high-end fashion jewelry has achieved a "collectible" status and increased value over time. Today, there is a substantial secondary market for vintage fashion jewelry. The main collecting market is for ...

4. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Wikipedia

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   Dutch Golden Age painting. Dimensions. 44.5 cm × 39 cm (17.5 in × 15 in) Location. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Girl with a Pearl Earring ( Dutch: Meisje met de parel) [1] [2] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title ...

5. Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) - Wikipedia

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   Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by Olivia Hetreed, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth ) at the time he painted Girl with ...

6. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   Georgian seed pearl gold ring. A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) [3] in minute ...

7. Florence - Wikipedia

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   Florence ( / ˈflɒrəns / FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ⓘ) [a] is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area. [4] Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest ...