Bluish White South Sea Pearls

Although it is possible to get pearls smaller than 10mm and larger than 16mm in the south sea they are scarce.

Bluish white south sea pearls.

Pearl necklace 18 14k white gold white cultured south sea graduated pearl strand 10 13mm 17 500 00 sale 9 625 00. A pearl is a hard glistening object produced within the soft tissue specifically the mantle of a living shelled mollusk or another animal such as fossil conulariids just like the shell of a mollusk a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite in minute crystalline form which has deposited in concentric layers. Although rare chocolate pearls can get their colors naturally. With white south sea pearls feature predominately bright silver overtones with some warmer creamy colors and the most rare overtone is rose.

While white pearls are generally less expensive than colored varieties a natural white pearl would be more expensive than cultured colored pearls. Chocolate color pearls are rich with shimmering hues and gleams of gold. With white freshwater pearls you ll find a lot of creamy hues and rose overtones in each harvest and silver is the least prevalent. They are also the largest pearl variety on the market.

South sea pearls are considered the most valuable. Pearls can range from gray to gray blue to silver blue. Almost universally described by pearlers as satiny in look the south sea pearl s luster is softer in appearance than that of the japanese akoya. However in recent years the market has seen an increase in south sea pearls under 10mm.

Cultured white south sea pearls and golden south sea pearls are the largest gemstones on the cultured market making them both rare and very valuable. And natural pearl colors found nowhere else on earth. Silver blue white south sea pearls are a rare fancy color mostly known to pearl specialists and collectors. Currently the most expensive pearls that are commonly found on the market are the south sea variety which occurs primarily in white and gold colors.

Please see the chart below to view the size range of white south sea pearls from australia and black south sea pearls from tahiti. A strand of south sea pearls can range from 1 000 to over 100 000. And when they do chocolate pearl jewelry owners find themselves with rare gems with. South sea pearls come from the white lipped variety of the pinctada maxima oyster.

Silver blue white south sea pearls range from 9 mm to 16 mm in size sometimes larger pearl colors. Because of the rarity and sensitivity of this type of oyster cultivation of these pearls is much more difficult making.