Price: $249.00These elegant drop earrings feature a large black Tahitian cultured pearl that hangs from a slender bar of five small prong-set diamonds. The earrings are set on 14k white gold posts and feature decorative and comfortable petal-shaped push backs. They hang slightly below the earlobe and are a perfect accent to an evening or special occasion wardrobe.
Black Tahitian cultured pearls have a deep glow, or luster. They range in color from metallic silver to pencil-lead gray, with overtones that vary from deep purple to vibrant green. They have a dramatic, exotic look, and pair beautifully with a wide selection of jewelry choices and wardrobe colors. The pearls in this necklace range between 8 and 9mm and have a medium gray color with few surface flaws.
The distinctive silvery-black color of the black Tahitian pearl comes from its cultivation inside the black-lipped variety of the Pinctata maxima oyster. These large oysters, up to a foot in diameter, are farmed on the volcanic atolls of Tahiti, where warm, nutrient-rich ocean waters create ideal environmental conditions for their growth. The oysters are pampered in the warm lagoons, and the pearls are kept inside them for a long period of time, allowing them to grow to their impressive size and develop multiple layers of lustrous nacre. Because of their sensitivity to the cultivation process, few of these oysters survive to produce pearls, which is why Tahitian pearls are so rare and valuable.
Jewelry Information
- Brand Name: Amazon.com Collection
- Metal stamp: 14k
- Metal: white-gold
- Material: pearl
- Total Diamond Weight: 0.14 carats
- Setting: prongs
- Metal stamp: 14k
- Back finding: post-with-friction-back
- Total metal weight: 6.65 DWT
- Number of stones: 10
- Pearl Information
- Number of pearls: 2
- Surface markings and blemishes: lightly-blemished
- Shape: Round
- Uniformity: Good
- Luster: medium-luster
- Minimum color: dark-gray
- Size per pearl: 8.0-9.0
- Pearl type: tahitian-cultured
- Minimum Total Carat Weight: 0.14 carats
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