The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.

A bit too thin, perhaps, but such wonderful pearly skin!

The tiny girl - she seemed about four - had the same, pearly, lustrous skin; her hair was a silvery eiderdown, pallid and patrician.

His small, sapphire-brilliant eyes were set far apart beneath ebon semi-circles that seemed to have been drawn with pigment on his pearly skin.

But it set off her pearly skin impressively and highlighted her large, pupilless sapphire blue eyes.

"This could be complicated, you know," he said, the hand caressing her pearly skin.

Kemoc was well in the van, and sharing his mount was Orsya, her hair and pearly skin still water-sleeked.

She gazed up at it, the glow from within suffusing her pearly skin with a red tint.

'With that pearly skin of yours, dear ghost, that flame was inevitable!'

This face with its penetrating eyes and pearly skin is the most - perhaps the only - expressive image in the exhibition.