Red Jasper Crystal Pyramid Green Jade When it first reached Europe

When it first reached Europe it was priced as a rare gem

its pyrite read by the ancient world as stars against a night sky

pyrite grows in remarkably precise cubes

the form provides a small recessed area for the stick with the broader carved surface catching falling ash

Form: Cones

Red Jasper Crystal Pyramid Green Jade When it first reached EuropeRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony cut to four faces and an apex, coloured through by iron and carved since the earliest civilisations. Solid and earthy, with the heft of fired clay. From India. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from older words across