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Natural Mineral Specimens

A display of different geological minerals, including calcite and cancrinite stones, showcasing their unique textures and shapes against white surfaces.

Heliotrope, or bloodstone
Heliotrope, or bloodstone
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Fragment of a vessel. A low curvature of the glass fragment allows the assignment to a vessel, possibly a shell. In the violet and blue glass, two forms of flowers can be seen in millefiori technology. On a violet reason you can see flowers consisting of concentric rings in the color sequence white, blue, yellow, purple and white. On a blue background lay around a white middle yellow bordered trapezoidal blue petals. For the production, different colored glasses were shaped to tubes and rods. These were compressed and heated, causing a long bar. The glass sliced now had different amorphous or floral patterns. Thereafter, several of these platelets were folded together, heated again and pressed into the vascular shape. Burry for the elaborate manufacturing process and its fragility was one of the luxury articles of antiquity.Fragment of a pipe stalk from the wreck of the East Indians' t Vliegend Hart ,, 1700 - 1735 Fragment of the stem of a Gouda earth pipe with caked rust. Fragments of Bowls and Stems. Gouda pipe claydecorative gourd a decorative gourd on white Copyright: xZoonar.com/SvetlanaxFootex 3045067Macro Laevicaulis alteRed heartsPalette with two birds attached at their tails. Dimensions: H: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.); W: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.). Date: ca. 3650-3500 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Grahal-Manzara. Carnavalet 2013-2016 collection sites. Numismatics.Carnelian amygdaloid seal. Culture: Minoan. Dimensions: L. 1.35 cm; W. 1.2 cm. Date: ca. 1700-1450 B.C..Flying bird; stylized bird. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.