{"id":6774,"date":"2012-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/south-sea-pearls\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:00:00","slug":"south-sea-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/south-sea-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sea pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big, round shaped, white with a particular opalescence. <strong>South Sea pearls<\/strong>, or &#8220;australian&#8221; ones, are the <strong>rarest and biggest<\/strong> in circulation, produced by the biggest pearl oysters in the world, the Pinctada Maxima.<\/p>\n<p>During the <strong>19th century<\/strong>, thanks to the discovery of a very prolific mussels&#8217; bed, these &#8220;<strong>queens of pearls<\/strong>&#8221; became really popular in Europe, making the Victorian Era the most luxurious time for these natural pearls.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"South Sea pearls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/250px-White_pearl_necklace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\"><\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of <strong>the Fifties<\/strong> the <strong>colture<\/strong> of this pearl begins, otherwise too rare to be found in nature, in far areas unpolluted by the man&#8217;s hand in order to diminish its <strong>high death percentage<\/strong>, which in some cases is up to <strong>80% of the mussels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pinctada Maxima<\/strong> are incredibly big mussels, which can reach <strong>30 cm<\/strong> in diameter and <strong>5.5 kg<\/strong>, being able to produce superior pearls then the other cultivated types, which can go from <strong>8 mm to 30 mm<\/strong> in diameter for spherical specimens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pintada maxima\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motherofpearl-tiles.co.uk\/siteimages\/Large%20MOP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"448\"><\/p>\n<p>Through the yeas these coltures have spread in <strong>all the south east Asia<\/strong>, from <strong>Birmania<\/strong>, to Malaysia, Indonesia arriving to the north west coasts of Australia, Philippines and Polinesia, where the world&#8217;s finest and famous black pearls of Tahiti thanks to a particular type of plancton eaten by these oysters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big, round shaped, white with a particular opalescence. South Sea pearls, or &#8220;australian&#8221; ones, are the rarest and biggest in circulation, produced by the biggest pearl oysters in the world, the Pinctada Maxima. During the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of a very prolific mussels&#8217; bed, these &#8220;queens of pearls&#8221; became really popular in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rare-pearls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}