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Symbolism and Sentimentality in Adornment Joanna Hardy, speaker at Cobbett’s Wey DFAS January lecture meeting, has had a long and fascinating career in the jewellery trade. From her early work as a diamond dealer for De Beers through to her joining Sotheby’s jewellery department as a senior specialist and auctioneer, Joanna has travelled widely valuing and assessing some of the most stunning jewellery in the world. Joanna’s talk, entitled ‘Symbolism and sentimentality in adornment’ focussed on the function of jewellery as a form of expression to replace words. She led us back in time to observe the use of jewellery in intimate moments between lovers to convey a very personal message and also to understand how it has been worn to represent status and wealth, and, on occasion to signal political aspirations and desires. Throughout, Joanna illustrated her talk with photographs of jewellery ranging from modest items to fantastic pieces of international importance, including a huge, teardrop pearl discovered in the Gulf of Panama in the 1500’s known as ‘La Peregrina’. This pearl, the largest ever found at that time, was given to King Phillip 2nd of Spain, passing through the hands of many European monarchs and aristocrats until its purchase by Richard Burton for $37,000 as Valentine’s Day gift for his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, in 1969, and sold in New York last December, for $11.8 million(£7.1 million).
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