Japanese Akoya salt-water pearl necklace with raimbow coral branch. A Japanese rainbow coral branch is used as a toggle bar. The ring and chain is platinum (Pt900).
This is a series of ArtLink original jewelry titled“Ariel’s Song”. Inspired by Ariel's song in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes:
This series uses Akoya saltwater pearls and a precious coral branch. All pearls are strung all-knotted with a coral bar and thread of matching color.
Please enjoy these treasures of the ocean.
Length: 48cm Total weight: 29.6g Size of pearls : 6.6-6.8mm Size of rainbow coral bar: 24mm long x5.9 diameter Akoya pearl + Rainbow coral + Platinum 900 New
Rainbow coral (“sea pine” 海松) is a one type of precious Japanese deep sea coral.
It’s called deep sea pine, and had been used to make Netsuke, Buddhist prayer beads and luxury decorations for Samurai equipment. Also used for fishing lures because of its rainbow luster. They grow at depths of about 1000m in the northern ocean and are harvested accidentally by fishermen’s nets or washed by waves to the beach. I got this piece from a craftsman in Hokkaido (the northern island of Japan) who works with sea pine.
