Professionals are culturing the high-quality,
Chinese fresh water pearls of my collection over a period of several years.

Freshwater pearls are cultured all over the world, though China has the largest part of the worldwide pearl trade. Perfectly round pearls are especially expensive and valuable. There are different color shadings of the pearls.

Pearls are nature’s product – thus each one is unique. Pearls of high quality have a near-
perfect smooth surface. The value of a pearl depends mostly on its size. Freshwater cultivated pearls can have a diameter of up to 10 mm. Generally the bigger the size of a pearl the more precious it is due to its uniqueness. Pearls occur in several different colors whereby the color has no effect on its quality. There are different color shadings, ranging from the classical white pearl to champagne, apricot and pink to even black.

 

Chinese freshwater cultivated pearls consist entirely of shell. The origin of pearls is a play of nature, which takes place in many different mussels – freshwater and sea mussels.
As a repulsion reaction of the mussel to the penetration of an external body or parasite, this mother-of-pearl belonging to a mussel in a layer is isolated. After some years in which more and more mother-of-pearl layers have formed around the foreign body, a real pearl has originated.
Besides of genuine pearls, there are also artificial pearls available. They are made of glass, wood, ivory, bone, shell, coral, amber, precious stones, metal, ceramic and plastic.
By the way – non-genuine pearls are easily to distinguish from real pearls. Non-genuine pearls have a near-perfect round shape, an unnatural smooth surface and are very shiny.
Please keep in mind that pearls are a nature’s product and thus always unique. No pearl is like another. Contrary to non-genuine pearls, real pearls have small dots, are not perfectly round and might have small scratches on the surface.

Your Azaya-Pearl Design Team!