Pearls, Bronze, Small Dancers 4mm Long on 16-inch Strand

JSD-173

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  • Very light bronze pearl very small "dancers" 4mm long on 16-inch strand
  • Only one available
  • Dancers are drop- or pear-shaped pearls drilled near the narrow end
  • This gives them the appearance of moving or "dancing"
  • I like to forget that bronze pearls are pearls and just use them for their color, luster, shape etc. this opens up a lot of possibilities that you might not think of.
  • Most gems are stones, but a few like Pearl, Amber, Jet, and Coral, are classified as Organic gems, meaning they came from living things.
  • 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 reduce the irritation.
  • The Chinese cultured 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.