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Sotheby's A rare rock-crystal and diamond dragonfly brooch designedby JAR in 1987 is estimated at 230,000-410,000 francs.
Geneva Auctions Glitter Margaret Studer 2011
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But looking into the darkness of the bottle was like looking into a geode: Shining, rock-crystal teeth glinted back at her, seared obsidian-black from the fire.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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But looking into the darkness of the bottle was like looking into a geode: Shining, rock-crystal teeth glinted back at her, seared obsidian-black from the fire.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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She was standing in the living room next to the sunken sofa and the wall of African masks, a rack of Fijian war clubs, the large rock-crystal fish, the celadon, the paintings, the aquatints, the fine mats and baskets, the koa bowls, the Tunisian carpet, the Ming dragon of glazed porcelain.
Beard 2010
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But looking into the darkness of the bottle was like looking into a geode: Shining, rock-crystal teeth glinted back at her, seared obsidian-black from the fire.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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This signed plaquette is taken from a rock-crystal plaque that formed part of a casket completed for Pope Clement VII in 1532.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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In 1992, this hollow rock-crystal skull was sent to the Smithsonian anonymously.
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Another tantalizing discovery was a rock-crystal seal with the image of a bull.
Mount Lykaion Back in the News Jan 2008
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Another tantalizing discovery was a rock-crystal seal with the image of a bull.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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Museums began collecting rock-crystal skulls during the second half of the nineteenth century, when no scientific archaeological excavations had been undertaken in Mexico and knowledge of real pre-Columbian artifacts was scarce.
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