Azurite

Item Description

Azurite from Greece is incredibly rare and hard to come by, especially in cabinet sized pieces!!! This is a very special, large plate with saturated color. No, not a plate - a 3-dimensional cluster! The colors are vibrant and rich, much more so than most azurite. This is a crust composed of very attractive, spherical aggregates of sparkling, slightly translucent, vibrant, purplish blue azurite. The largest sphere measures 1.5 cm across. This is a superb specimen, said to be one of the very best, from a small find of early 2012. The sparkly, sugary look, and the ball-shaped clusters growing in a chain upon each other, are highly unusual and make this stand out dramatically from azurites of other locales. The piece is nearly, though not quite, a floater - mostly complete all around. It has a rich bright color, that is hard to convey but is somewhat less dark than "usual" for azurite. Small alterations to malachite are present on a few balls of azurite. Ex Alain Martaud and was valued $2750.