Rock Crystal Mounted On Base

- Rock crystal mounted on a brass base with a serpentine line. The result of slow crystallization, the prisms of these crystals, with varied directions and lengths, offer a unique sculptural composition.

- Rock crystal is a colorless and gem variety of quartz. Composed of silicon and oxygen, it contains only tiny traces of other chemical elements. It crystallizes from a few kilometers deep, at temperatures of around 250 to 850¨C. Quartz most often presents, as is the case here, apparently hexagonal prisms. The word "crystal" comes from the ancient Greek crystallos which means "ice"; the Ancients thought that rock crystal was formed at low temperature by irreversible freezing of water.

- Dimensions: Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 12 cm, Depth: 5.5 cm