A Secessionist silver brooch modelled as a woman's head in exotic headdress set with an apple green
chrysoprase, a gemstone variety of Chalcedony.
The SG value was clearly much lower than the ~2.6 expected for
chrysoprase, and instead lies in the range of common opal.
All 18K gold, and the vibrant color palette features stones of
chrysoprase, black and white diamonds and onyx.
Anangu combined subsistence with sale of their labour to the Presbyterian mission (remunerated in kind until the 1950s) and later to the publicly funded town council and to small-scale mining (
chrysoprase).
I wonder if that intended audience is partial to terms like 'baldrics', '
chrysoprase' and 'whited sepulchre' in the course of everyday conversation, but Donohue has succeeded in flushing out most such obscurities, along with a fair amount of the play's Decadent and Symbolist style.
Four recent paintings, based on semi-precious stones such as "Aventurine," "Turquoise," "
Chrysoprase" (Yellow), and "Jasper" (Red)-all from 2012-are being shown for the first time.
In some cases, the two worlds collide as when, in "Beach Glass" a speaker searches for something beautiful among the shoreline's "driftwood and shipwreck, last night's / beer cans, spilt oil, the coughed-up residue of plastic." In addition to abandoned "houses / of so many mussels and periwinkles," she discovers glass the color of amber of Budweiser,
chrysoprase of Almaden and Gallo, lapis by way of (no getting around it, I'm afraid) Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, with now and then a rare translucent turquoise or blurred amethyst of no known origin.
In "Beach Glass" she finds slivers washed on shore in colors of amber, turquoise, lapis,
chrysoprase, and amethyst.
The city of gold, The jasper walls thereof, the gates of pearl, The bright foundation-stones of emerald, Of sapphire,
chrysoprase, of every gem, And the high triumph of unending day Shall be but wildfire on a summer eve Beside the exceeding glory of delight, That shall entrance me with the constant thought Of how in Hell through all eternity My son performs the perfect will of God.
His Capri Plus collection celebrates the beauty of Capri Isle, one of the most picturesque and famous Italian islands, in a blend of diamonds and exotic, luminous-hued semi-precious stones such as blue topaz, amethyst, cabochon,
chrysoprase and orange moonstones on settings of 18k yellow gold, silver, ruthenium and wood.
"I'd use a lot of the same stones that people use when meditating," she says, "like kyanite and
chrysoprase. Then I'd add jasper.
One of the three boxes that had been sent by the King contained amber in large pieces, uncommonly pure; another, a mass of stone of considerable size, in appearance resembling the
chrysoprase; and the third, a large and beautiful group of crystals, rising from a matrix of amethyst, in the form of prisms, mostly hexagonal or pentagonal, slightly striated on the surface, and terminated at one end by a pyramid composed of three rhomboidal planes.
Yet in Lucien's choice of subject matter, he betrays his own ideal--no longer elevating painting to a level of celestial perfection but cheapening it by recycling imagery from the pre-Raphaelites: the gaudy meretriciousness of
chrysoprase and chalcedony, a morbid horticulture of tubercular orchids and expiring lilies, an art of doe-eyed androgynes "en robes semblables a des queues de paon" (117).
CANCER (21 Jun - 20 Jul) Alexandrite,
chrysoprase, pearl, ruby, moonstone, green amber, green aventurine.
Low blood pressure can be treated here with a light green stone such as
chrysoprase and high blood pressure can be treated with a dark coloured specimen such as dioptase.
