Calcite with phantom (Larry Krause Coll.)

Item Description

A sculptural and aesthetic calcite specimen from the famous Shangbao Mine of China. The lustrous, complete all-around, tapering, colorless, scalenohedron has nifty stepped-growth faces, but the striking highlights are the gemmy, honey-brown, secondary calcite overgrowths/sidecar crystals, including the stunning termination with phantom. The beautiful frontal display view has only trivial edgewear and the out of sight back has contacting, with only minimal bruising. These have become a sought-after Chinese calcite varietal. Ex Larry Krause Collection. Late 1980s material.