‘CHICKEN FEET‘ KESHI PEARLS -HIGH LUSTER 60CTS [PF460]

Description

CHICKEN FEET  KESHI PEARLS

This is a parcel of fresh water Keshi pearls hand selected because of there feet like appearance.Only a small percentage of free shaped pearls have this interesting look.

Harvested in china

Natural- minimum treatment

High luster

Total weigh 60cts

Size of largest Pearl 40 x 29 x 6 mm app

Keshi Pearls

Keshi pearls have been formed in a very unique manner as compared to the usual method of pearl formation. Typically pearls are formed within a substance such as a piece of mollusk in an oyster. The layers of nacre continue to grow as long as oyster is alive which results in the formation of pearl.

On the other hand keshi pearls are generated in two methods, in first method keshi pearl are formed when oyster rejects and spits out the substance which is nucleus. It gets finished before the pearl develops. In Second method nucleus fractures and form two different pearl sacs that is a circle of nacre and eventually a “pearl”.

Keshi pearls are popularly known as poppy seed pearls or seed pearls. They result from freshwater or saltwater. They are quite small in size because of the lack of nuclei which defines the shape of pearl. Keshi pearls are available in variety of colors and overtones which are commonly known as luster and orientation of pearl. These qualities result from the composition of solid nacre as the nucleus is expelled out of the oyster and remaining is only the nacre outside.

Keshi pearls cannot be regarded as natural pearls; they are actually a bi-product of culturing process and not natural. Few years ago the most beautiful and rare Keshi pearls from Tahiti and south sea could be bargained but today keshi pearls are exceptional and unusual. The improved technology like x-rays is used by farmers to see whether the nucleus is still there or is expelled out of the oyster. As they found with the help of x-ray, that the nucleus is absent they simply re-nucleate the oyster before keshi pearl grows. This is the reason why keshi pearls have become more and more rare than before