Pearls, Peacock, Round, 4mm Diameter with Purple Highlights on 16-inch Strands
SKU: GMS-305
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Description
- Dark silvery grey peacock pearls with purplish highlights 4mm round on 16-inch strand. Perfectly round pearls are quite rare and usually more expensive.
- The name peacock references the shimmering colors of a peacocks tail. In the case of pearls it can range from a light blue tinged silver with coppery highlights, as in the case of this strand, to a quite dark purplish grey with multicolor highlights
- Pearls are formed inside bivalves (similar to oysters), which coat any foreign substance that gets inside their shell with a smooth layer of pearly nacre to eliminate the irritation and this coating of grows over time increasing the pearl's luster. The color is influenced by minerals in the water.
- The Chinese cultured some pearls in the 12th or 13th century, but the Japanese developed it into an industry in the 1890s, inserting mother-of-pearl beads as the basis of their cultured Pearls.