Ananda Classics Pearl StringLong Fresh Water Pearl Necklace decorated with Pink Cats Eye and Swarovski Crystals. Baroque pearls are irregularly or oddly shaped. Baroque pearls were highly prized by Renaissance jewelers, who saw them not as misshapen products of sea mollusks but rather as unique and exquisite natural forms. Shapes can range from minor aberrations to distinctly ovoid, curved, pinched, or lumpy shapes. Most cultured freshwater pearls are baroque because freshwater