Types of Pearls COLORS, SHAPES, VALUE
BY BHAGYARATNAM THE HOUSE OF PEARLS
What are Pearls? Pearls are produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk - a diverse animal group that includes gastropods, clams, mussels, oysters, and conchs. When shelled mollusk wants to protect itself against irritants, it secretes layers of lustrous nacre over irritants. Over time, these layers form a pearl. Basically, there are two primary types of pearls that exist in the world of genuine pearls - Natural Pearls and Cultured pearls.
Both the pearls are real and authentic gemstones but their forming process is different.
Natural Pearls vs
Cultured Pearls • Cultured pearls are
Natural Pearls • On the other hand, Natural
produced within the soft
Pearls are naturally formed
tissue of a living oyster or
within the soft tissue of
mollusk that is formed
living mussels and oysters.
through farming and harvesting.
Cultured Pearls
• Cultured pearls require
• Natural pearls don't require
human assistance, care, and
human care and
intervention to acquire.
intervention.
Pearl farmers raise the mollusks in pearl farms with conditions similar to nature.
Types of Cultured Pearls In the marketing of pearl jewelry, most pearls are cultured pearls because natural pearls are extremely rare and very expensive. Most people can't afford natural pearls, so many pearl jewelry sellers deal with cultured pearls. There are mainly 5 major types of Cultured Pearls.
Sea of Cortez
Tahitian
Freshwater Akoya
South Sea
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Freshwater Pearls
Akoya Pearls
Tahitian Pearls
• Size: 3mm - 15mm
• Size: 3mm - 11mm
• Size: 8 mm - 18 mm
• Color: Pink, peach, lavender, and
• Color: Silver, cream, pink, gray, gold,
• Color: deep black, gray, iridescent
white, rare rainbow colors • Shape: Potato-shaped, rice-shaped, coin-shaped, and sometimes round, baroque • Price: $20 to $5000
or blue • Shape: Perfectly round • Price: $100 to thousands of dollars
peacock, regal green, and aubergine colors • Shape: circled, and smooth baroque shapes • Price: $400 to more than $30,000 Page 09
COLORS, SHAPES, VALUE Of Pearls 4 South Sea Pearls
5 Sea of Cortez Pearls
• Size: 9.0mm - 20.0mm
• Size: 8.3 mm to 9.8 mm
• Color: White and golden colors
• Color: Blue-Green, Green, Pistachio,
• Shape: Drop, pear, semi-round, freeformed baroque, circled baroque, and smooth baroque • Price: $400 to more than $30,000
Mauve, Rose, Copper, Aubergine, and Lime colors • Shape: Round and baroque shapes • Price: $200 to thousands of dollars
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Value Factors of Pearls Shapes
Perfect round pearls are valuable
Luster
Mirror-like luster has more value
Size
Larger sizes of pearls are rare and valuable
Color
White, golden and deep dark has high value
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