4.2" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Crystal Mushrooms | No.212

A mushrooms cut from a single block of blue chalcedony, 4.2 inches.

This is cryptocrystalline quartz — the crystals are there but far too small to see, which gives blue chalcedony its soft, slightly greasy sheen and its translucency. Held up to a lamp the pale blue-grey lets light through at the edges while the thicker passages stay opaque.

Worked in the round from a single block, with the form chosen to suit what that block could give rather than imposed on it.

Item ID 1100212
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 4.2 in
Weight see photographs