Bluish White South Sea Pearls

With white freshwater pearls you ll find a lot of creamy hues and rose overtones in each harvest and silver is the least prevalent.

Bluish white south sea pearls.

South sea pearls are considered the most valuable. Silver blue white south sea pearls range from 9 mm to 16 mm in size sometimes larger pearl colors. Pearls can range from gray to gray blue to silver blue. With white south sea pearls feature predominately bright silver overtones with some warmer creamy colors and the most rare overtone is rose.

Chocolate color pearls are rich with shimmering hues and gleams of gold. 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. 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. This oyster is much larger than the oysters that produce akoya and freshwater pearls so the pearl that it produces is much larger as well.

A strand of south sea pearls can range from 1 000 to over 100 000. White and golden south sea pearls are known to have the thickest nacre layers of all cultured saltwater pearl types averaging between 2 0 4 0mm thick or more. South sea pearls come from the white lipped variety of the pinctada maxima oyster. For silver blue south sea pearls the main body color will generally be a gray tone and the overtone is an iridescent blue color.

Please see the chart below to view the size range of white south sea pearls from australia and black south sea pearls from tahiti. Silver blue white south sea pearls are a rare fancy color mostly known to pearl specialists and collectors. They are also the largest pearl variety on the market. Because of the rarity and sensitivity of this type of oyster cultivation of these pearls is much more difficult making.

However in recent years the market has seen an increase in south sea pearls under 10mm. 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. And when they do chocolate pearl jewelry owners find themselves with rare gems with. Although it is possible to get pearls smaller than 10mm and larger than 16mm in the south sea they are scarce.

While white pearls are generally less expensive than colored varieties a natural white pearl would be more expensive than cultured colored pearls. And natural pearl colors found nowhere else on earth.