Handmade Tibetan Turquoise Prayer Box Pendant.
Turquoise and red coral inlaid.
This prayer box pendant was handmade in Nepal from stirling silver, turquoise and coral.
Size: 40x40x15mm, turquoise size: 21x31mm;weight: 41g.
Turquoise is one of the world's earliest-used gem materials.
Ranked with the jades of the Orient and lapis in the Near East, turquoise has been revered for thousands of years.
In the Southwestern United States, no gemstone has been held in greater esteem.
Diggings at Chaco Canyon and other ancient sites have revealed tens of thousands of pieces of turquoise in various stages of lapidary treatment.
Where ancient leaders were buried, the amount of turquoise present in the grave sites indicates that it was a stone of significance long ago.
Hardly a deposit of turquoise was left undiscovered by the ancient ones.
Today, the gem material's popularity reaches from the Southwestern United States across the entire world.
Turquoise and red coral inlaid.
This prayer box pendant was handmade in Nepal from stirling silver, turquoise and coral.
Size: 40x40x15mm, turquoise size: 21x31mm;weight: 41g.
Turquoise is one of the world's earliest-used gem materials.
Ranked with the jades of the Orient and lapis in the Near East, turquoise has been revered for thousands of years.
In the Southwestern United States, no gemstone has been held in greater esteem.
Diggings at Chaco Canyon and other ancient sites have revealed tens of thousands of pieces of turquoise in various stages of lapidary treatment.
Where ancient leaders were buried, the amount of turquoise present in the grave sites indicates that it was a stone of significance long ago.
Hardly a deposit of turquoise was left undiscovered by the ancient ones.
Today, the gem material's popularity reaches from the Southwestern United States across the entire world.
