Mikimoto sponsors Osaka's Vermeer show with three pearl-and-diamond earrings, the priciest at ¥17.6m
Mikimoto is putting three new high-jewellery pearl earrings, priced up to ¥17.6m, behind its sponsorship of a Vermeer exhibition opening in Osaka this August — a repeat of the cultural tie-in it ran when the same painting last toured Japan in 2012.
Mikimoto has been named special sponsor of "Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring," an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch painting opening at the Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art on 21 August and running to 27 September, according to a company release dated 1 August. The museum organises the show together with the Asahi Shimbun and Asahi Broadcasting Television, the release said.