The Dainty Pearl & Heart Gold Filled Necklace is crafted with an 18-inch strand of gold filled chain, red jasper, and freshwater pearl beads.
 
Pearls were already luxury goods in the Mediterranean world by the third millennium BCE, and Roman status anxiety around them ran so high that Julius Caesar restricted who was permitted to wear them by rank. Romans dedicated pearls to Venus, born from a shell in myth, and early Christian writers later adopted the pearl as an emblem of purity. Because a pearl forms slowly, in layers, inside a living mollusk, cultures as different as ancient Rome and imperial China both came to read it as a symbol of patience and accumulated wisdom.