{"id":453217,"date":"2026-05-17T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:56:14","slug":"continental-ladys-pearl-earrings-sell-for-e340000-at-dublin-auction-where-some-of-the-prices-were-bonkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453217\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental lady\u2019s pearl earrings sell for \u20ac340,000 at Dublin auction where some of the prices were \u2018bonkers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The idea of wearing a jewel that costs as much as a house might scare some people \u2013 but not everybody\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claire-Laurence Mestrallet of Adam's with the earrings. Photo: Tom Honan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9aba6c02-3424-45fb-a9e8-8e24909b4e63.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Claire-Laurence Mestrallet of Adam&#8217;s with the earrings. Photo: Tom Honan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A pair of pearl drop earrings sold for \u20ac340,000 at a Dublin auction house last week. Despite having an estimate of between \u20ac25,000 and \u20ac35,000, a flurry of bids came in for the earrings, which were made in the early 20th century and described as coming from the \u201cprivate collection of a continental lady\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The earrings were offered for sale at Adam\u2019s fine jewellery and ladies watches auction last Tuesday, when the natural pearls were among a number of items that sold for well above the estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea of wearing a jewel that costs as much as a house might scare some people \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25666,615,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-453217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-deirdre-barry","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}