3.1" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Crystal Polished Point | No.178

A point cut from a single block of blue chalcedony, 3.1 inches, 286 g.

Chalcedony is quartz grown too finely to show any grain, so it takes a waxy lustre rather than a glassy one and light travels a few millimetres into the surface before it stops. The pale blue reads deeper wherever the stone is thickest and washes out over thin edges, which is why the form changes as you turn it against a window.

A tower is cut to stand, which means the base has to be true and the faces have to meet cleanly at the tip. The vertical form shows off banding that a rounded shape would break up.

Item ID 1100178
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 2.4 × 2 × 3.1 in (60 × 51 × 78 mm)
Weight 286 g