5.9" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Crystal Ashtray Fruit Tray

An ashtray fruit tray cut from a single block of blue chalcedony, 5.9 inches, 610 g.

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 1100034
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 5.9 × 4.8 × 1.1 in (150 × 123 × 28 mm)
Weight 610 g