Smoky Quartz with Spessartine

Item Description

The best of these pieces are some of the most attractive and highly displayable specimens to come out of China. This particular piece features a group of dark "morion" Smoky Quartz crystals with incredibly sharp faces, great luster, and superb hexagonal form. The Smokies are studded with lustrous, gemmy, strong orange Spessartine trapezohedra with minor dodecahedral modifications measuring up to 3.5 mm. The color in the Spessartine crystals is very attractive, and they are not at all dull or pitted, and they make for such a lovely color contrast against the stark, almost black Smoky Quartz. This material is becoming less and less available on the market, and keep in mind that there are only a few worldwide localities that produce this color of Spessartine in fine specimens, especially with richly colored Smokies.