Ottoline's pearls

 "she bought for me a row of pearls at the sale of the French crown jewels; she liked to feel that I should wear a row of pearls that had been round the neck of Marie Antoinette." -Lady Ottoline Morrell


Jennifer Schlesinger  Object diaspora #21, 2009
 


 
Jennifer Schlesinger, Object Diaspora #13, 2009 


when I saw these photographs I immediately thought of Ottoline & her world-and her pearls. 

more of Schlesinger's photographs at 1st dibs here




Garsington in Bloom



Garsington Manor,Ottoline's home in Oxfordshire, England
photographed by Martin Beek