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Price Realised GBP 6,250
Estimate
GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000
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A FINE SPECIMEN OF LAPIS LAZULI
AFGHANISTAN
Price Realised GBP 6,250
Price Realised GBP 6,250
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8 King Street, St. James's, London, SW1Y 6QT, United Kingdom
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Lot Essay
Mined and prized for millennia, lapis has been used throughout history as a decorative stone -- from the funerary mask of Tutankhamun through to being ground up to use as (an extremely expensive) pigment in the Renaissance.
Lapis with a colour as deep as the present example are normally broken and used for the jewellery industry, and it is thus rare to see a specimen of this quality and size.
Lapis with a colour as deep as the present example are normally broken and used for the jewellery industry, and it is thus rare to see a specimen of this quality and size.
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AFGHANISTAN
A FINE SPECIMEN OF LAPIS LAZULI
Estimate: GBP 5,000 - 8,000
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