QUARTZ SCEPTER ON MUSCOVITE. ...

Description

QUARTZ SCEPTER ON MUSCOVITE
Galiléia, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Looking like a piece of royal regalia, this Quartz "Scepter" is a complex assemblage of many scintillating prisms clustered about the tip of a "stem" of transparent Smoky Quartz. In spite of the complex appearance, all of the Quartz here is actually ONE single crystal including the stem, possessing a myriad of brilliant faces. Rising from a fan of silvery, green Muscovite crystals up to 3 inches on edge, this unusually large Quartz Scepter extends an impressive 10 inches (25.4 cm) in height, the 'head' making up some 5 ½ inches of that. The multi-faced head shows considerable variation in the depth of the smoky color and there are numerous metallic appearing, 'negative crystals' visible in the interior. It is in pristine condition: rare for large Quartz crystals and even the Muscovite mica is in excellent shape. This striking specimen has graced the collection of collector/dealer Wayne Thompson, and then went into the private collection of Intel Corporation Fellow: Gene Meieran, and finally was in the personal collection of Daniel Trinchillo Jr. It measures an impressive 10 x 5 x 4 inches (25.4 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm) and stands upright in a custom labeled base.

Provenance: ex. Wayne Thompson Collection
ex. Gene Meieran Collection
ex. Daniel Trinchillo Jr. Collection

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