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2. Baroque pearl - Wikipedia

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   The most valuable baroque pearls are the South Sea and the Tahitian pearls, which are produced by Pinctada margaritifera (black-lipped oysters) and Pinctada maxima (gold-lipped and white-lipped oysters). Although these are a variety of cultured saltwater pearls, the amount of time that the pearls are cultured dramatically increases the depth of ...

3. Tahitian pearl - Wikipedia

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   The cultured Tahitian pearl comes in various shapes, sizes, and colors; shapes include round, semi-round, button, circle, oval, teardrop, semi-baroque and baroque. [4] Because of their darker hues, Tahitian pearls are commonly known as "black pearls". [5] However, Tahitian pearls have the ability to contain various undertones and overtones of ...

4. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   Georgian seed pearl gold ring. A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) [3] in minute ...

5. Baroque - Wikipedia

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   17th–18th centuries. The Baroque (UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -⁠ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [ 1 ] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the ...

6. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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   Cultured pearl. Cultured pearls are pearls which are formed within a cultured pearl sac with human intervention in the interior of productive living molluscs in a variety of conditions depending upon the mollusc and the goals. [1] Having the same material as natural pearls, cultured pearls can be cultivated in seawater or freshwater bodies.

7. Robert Wan Pearl Museum - Wikipedia

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   Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Coordinates. 17°32′24″S 149°34′6″W  /  17.54000°S 149.56833°W  / -17.54000; -149.56833. Type. Museum. Key holdings. Pearls. The Robert Wan Pearl Museum is the world's only museum dedicated to pearls. It is in Papeete, Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia.