A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

关于 GIA 图书馆的馆藏和入场权限，请联系GIA 卡尔斯巴德图书馆。 Japanese Cultured Pearls（《日本养殖珍珠》），K. Mikimoto（御木本幸吉），第 24 页（1907 年）。在这本小册子中，作者介绍了英虞湾珍珠养殖场的运作情况。 Pearls of Great Price（《高价珍珠》），K ...

Now we see pearls almost as accessories, relatively inexpensive decorations to accompany more costly gemstones. Before the creation of cultured pearls in the early 1900s, natural pearls were so ...

I think that's something very impressive. It's a metal component that's about 1 meter wide, with a boxy shape.

A vintage 1997 find, these clip-on Chanel drop ... Cast from sterling silver, these hoops drop to a baroque freshwater cultured pearl – each one is totally unique. From the coveted Alhambra ...

After Mikimoto founder Kokichi Mikimoto invented cultured pearl technology, it made pearls accessible to the masses. Mikimoto’s goal was “to adorn the necks of all women around the world with ...

This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it. When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted ...

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Saltwater, damp salt air, and chlorine can also be harmful to cultured pearls, whereas sand is extremely abrasive, so be sure ...

研究结果发表在一项名为《关于改善低品质大珠母贝养殖珍珠表面外观的研究》(A Study on Improving the Surface Appearance of Low-Quality Pinctada maxima Bead Cultured Pearls) 的研究文章中。作者的结论是，改善低品质珍珠外观所用的方法并非总能成功，而且对制造商来说，这种 ...

Indian oysters are small but China has hybrid oysters which produce large pearls. "Cultured South Sea pearls are the most valuable type of cultured pearl on the market today. These pearls come in ...

Oysters are the primary producers of pearls, clams and mussels can also create pearls, though this is much less common. Most ...