Ming’s of Honolulu Pearl & Jade Floral Brooch
Yellow Gold, 14k, Jadeite
$949.95
- Maker
- Ming's
- Era
- Ming’s of Honolulu · 14K Gold · Translucent jade & pearl
- Materials
- Yellow Gold, 14k, Jadeite
- Condition
- Pre-owned - Excellent
- Provenance
- A companion blossom: solid 14K gold, domed pearl, and translucent jade, signed Ming’s of Honolulu and in excellent condition. The kind of quietly fine piece that wears for another lifetime.
On this piece
Jade rewards the eye that looks closely, and this Ming’s brooch is worth the look. Vintage Ming’s of Honolulu, solid 14K yellow gold, it centers a domed cultured pearl among translucent light-green jade in the house’s signature floral design — a genuinely lovely example of the Hawaiian-Asian style Ming’s made world-renowned. A note in the maker’s own honest spirit: in some photographs the jade can read bluer than it is; in person it’s a soft, living light green, exactly as fine translucent jade should be. At 2⅛ inches wide it wears with real presence, and it’s signed Ming’s and 14K on the reverse, in excellent condition. From a house that closed in 1999 and is chased harder every year, this is authentic, signed, solid-gold Ming’s — the islands’ finest floral art, made to be pinned and admired for generations.