6.0" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Jewelry Tray Fruit Tray

A jewelry tray fruit tray worked in blue chalcedony. At 6 inches and 703 g it wants a shelf of its own rather than a desk corner.

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 3100638
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 6 × 4.5 × 1 in (155 × 115 × 26 mm)
Weight 703 g