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The Pearl, a gift from the seas

José Baptista

J. Baptista

Although many mollusks produce pearls, only pearl oysters belonging to the genus Pinctada that live in marine waters are prized for jewelery and have true value.

"Pearl" means any nacreous or other concretion found in various species of bivalve, univalve, marine or freshwater molluscs.

The pearl is a gem of organic origin and produced deep in the waters. It was undoubtedly one of the first to be used by man as ornament and adornment, when he found it within the mollusks he fed.

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The European contribution to the development of Mughal painting in the seventeenth and seventeenth centuries is one of the most interesting chapters of India-Europe cultural interaction, which strangely little attention has deserved from our scholars of the Orient (except for the remarkable Goa exhibition). and Grand Mogol at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2004 and its catalog)

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Presentation of some practices and methodologies involved in a jewelry appraisal at J Baptista.
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Presentation of some practices and methodologies involved in a jewelry appraisal at J Baptista.

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José Baptista and Pedro Baptista

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J. Baptista

Although many mollusks produce pearls, only pearl oysters belonging to the genus Pinctada that live in marine waters are prized for jewelery and have true value.

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