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Featured Artist: Luis Alberto Quispe
Lot 1306Y
A Carved Gemstone and Coral "Aquarium"
27 May 2010, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$15,000 - US$20,000
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Designed by Luis Alberto Quispe
The vivid imagination of the artist is clearly in evidence in this novel gemstone creation. A colorful underwater world is evoked through the use of 3500 carats of numerous multicolor tropical fish carved of heliodor, aquamarine, tourmaline, morganite, lemon quartz, cognac quartz, ametrine and carnelian, fluorite and even gem silica chrysocolla, with 18K yellow gold fittings, affixed to a natural coral from the South Pacific, measures 23 x 14in
The vivid imagination of the artist is clearly in evidence in this novel gemstone creation. A colorful underwater world is evoked through the use of 3500 carats of numerous multicolor tropical fish carved of heliodor, aquamarine, tourmaline, morganite, lemon quartz, cognac quartz, ametrine and carnelian, fluorite and even gem silica chrysocolla, with 18K yellow gold fittings, affixed to a natural coral from the South Pacific, measures 23 x 14in
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