Selenite Crystal Pyramid Red Carnelian Deeper and more sustained than

Deeper and more sustained than the Royal or Golden grades

and bedside tables across the Mediterranean

the fibres carrying a soft sheen that gathers around the curve

The same titanium dioxide is refined today into the whitest pigment - here left in its raw golden crystal

Selenite Crystal Pyramid Red Carnelian Deeper and more sustained thanSelenite a translucent white cut to four faces, a satin sheen running up each side toward the point, the soft gypsum named for the moon. Softer than almost any stone cut. From Morocco, a pyramid. It is gypsum hydrated calcium sulfate, Mohs 2, soft enough to mark with a fingernail. The satin sheen is chatoyancy, light running along the stones fine fibres, a band that travels as the light moves, like sheen on satin. Two things follow from its softness