Luster: The pearl's ability to reflect light, the intensity determining the pearl's shininess.

Black pearls are made by a species of oyster called Pinctada Margaritifera, commonly known as the black-lipped oyster. This oyster appears in the South Pacific. Historically most black pearls came from Tahiti, and they are therefore often known as Tahitian black pearls. In recent years, however, both nearby Kiribati and the Cook Islands have begun producing black pearls, accounting for 3-4% of the world's supply.

In the past black pearls were amazingly expensive, due to their extreme rarity. Approximately one in ten-thousand oysters produces a black pearl, and of these a small fraction are of adequate luster, shape and size to be desirable. Black pearls are therefore associated with high luxury and class in jewelry, and many prestigious necklaces and bracelets of royalty and the elite contain black pearls of large size..

Pearl Museum

The Robert Wan Pearl Museum is the world's only museum dedicated solely to pearls. It is located in Papeete, Tahiti.

The Robert Wan Pearl Museum is dedicated to one jewel - the pearl. It offers a worldly discovery of the pearl's history from the very beginning.

Pearl Farming History
The Robert Wan pearl Museum is a pearl farming encyclopaedia, from its early beginnings to today's pearl production industry. What is a pearl? Where are the pearls found? How are they cultivated? What does today's pearl farm look like?
 
The Pearl at the heart of all religions
The pearl is the universal messenger of immortality, accompanying the deceased to their graves as early as prehistoric times. In America during the pre-Colombian civilizations, in China, Africa, Egypt and India, princes and lords were buried in their coffins, pearls decorating their clothes or placed inside their mouths. Throughout the times, the pearl was the universal symbol of fertility and life cycles, a divine presence and the path of the soul or spirit on the way to perfection.
 
Artists' Fascination
The pearl has always inspired men and women since the beginning of time such as Jules Verne's science fiction novel "Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea", Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea", Rubens with his "The toilet of Venus" and Botticelli with his "Birth of Venus".
 
Royal Glory and Profane Splendour
The pearl was a symbol of wealth, power and nobility. It symbolized royal glory
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