Just liked this from the chrysoberyl Wikipedia page: Cyclic trilling of chrysoberyl. Sounds like a mineralogical love song.
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Welcome, Zara. Showing the whole piece can greatly help with identification.
Word for the day: chatoyancy.
"Wr" would be very unusual for any word/name in French, although place names can be very different from modern French.
I was ready to say I thought it was meant to look like an antiquity but would be very, very careful in coming to that conclusion. Then decided to...
Agree it is glass.
I see a family resemblance in the decoration on this one, but seller does not seem really to know anything about it. The 'portrait' is not a...
Does it have a cat's-eye effect? Or is that a trick of the lighting? For color it looks more like prehnite to me than any other mineral I can...
Quite a piece. Until the real potties weigh in, I'll remark that the portrait strikes me as more likely to be meant for the goddess Juno/Hera...
Spirits, face & a few other bits. :D
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