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Drillbit-twinned Cinnabar on Quartz
- Hunan Province, China
- Thumbnail, 2.7 x 2.4 x 1.3 cm
- Start Time: 07/12/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 07/18/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
An adorable thumbnail of a 1.0 cm, sharp, drillbit-twinned, cinnabar crystal elegantly perched on the sculptural matrix wedge covered with sparkly quartz points. The classically formed, lustrous, deep wine-red cinnabar is very nearly pristine, with only very trivial termination edge wear. Cinnabars from Hunan Province are much less common than those from Tongren in Guizhou Province.