Jasmine in Paris

A night at the opera, the flamboyant bayadères take centre stage in Paris. Their ebony hair is adorned by jasmine flowers that shine like the Moon from the pearl. Transcended by the jeweller’s magic, the flower is barely suggested by its open-work gold and diamond petals languishing on a rainbow of South sea pearls. The jasmine has given up its iridescent colour to the pearls that surround it.