6.0" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Crystal Ashtray Fruit Tray

An ashtray fruit tray worked in blue chalcedony. At 6 inches and 805 g it wants a shelf of its own rather than a desk corner.

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.

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 3100024
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 6 × 5.2 × 1.2 in (152 × 131 × 30 mm)
Weight 805 g