Pleuronectiformes / Illustration Porcelain Necklace

Catchy, smart, queer. Porcelain necklace with archival scientific illustration.

The main piece was hand-sculpted from strong porcelain, fired hot so it’s tough and smooth. The surface carries archival scientific illustration, transferred with cobalt oxide that burns into a deep sea-blue. This illustration showing a flatfish is a fragment 19th‑century scientific plate from Peter (P. Yu.) Schmidt’s Russian ichthyological work “Рыбы восточных морей” (“Fishes of the Eastern Seas”). Flatfishes are bottom‑dwelling fishes that begin life as normal, symmetrical larvae swimming upright in the water column, each eye on a different side of the head. During metamorphosis one eye migrates across the head, the body flattens, and the fish adopts a sideways, bottom‑oriented lifestyle on the seafloor.

To add a fun twist to the necklace the illustration continues from the front to the back side of the main piece. The necklace rests on blue cotton not-twisted cord finished with golden-coloured clasp to match the maritime spirit of the main piece. It was produced in a single version and represents a unique piece of jewellery. The indicated price is for one necklace with ichthyological illustration.

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