Cultured Pearl 17" Necklace Color:White Crystal rondelles add extra sparkle

Crystal rondelles add extra sparkle between the main crystals

Sterling silver fishhooks provide a simple

creating the white "snowflake" spots scattered through the black glass

Burgundy Czech Glass

set here with gold filled leverback closures and a decorative bead cap rather than a plain finding

Cultured Pearl 17" Necklace Color:White Crystal rondelles add extra sparkleGrown, Not Cut Cultured pearls form the same way natural pearls do a mollusk coating an irritant in layer after layer of nacre except the irritant is deliberately introduced by a pearl farmer rather than occurring by chance. The growth process itself, and the resulting layered structure, is otherwise identical to a wild pearl. Set as a single drop on a gold filled figaro chain, the pearl stays the sole focal point rather than one of several beads.