Description

Antique Chinese Flower Pendant ‘Multiple flower’ image, end 18th Century.

✓ Museum Quality Artifact
✓ Extremely Rare Collector’s Item

DETAILS

Antique Chinese Flower Pendant

• Material: Ruby in Fuchsite
• Size: 5,1 x 2,5 x 1,0 cm (2.01 x 0.98 x 0.39 inch)
• Weight: 174 carat
• Country of Origin: China

INFORMATION ON THULITE

Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium. It can be colorless or tinted through grays, browns, greens, yellows, or (rarely) violet or red, and can be transparent or translucent. The green, chromium-rich variety is called fuchsite; mariposite is also a chromium-rich type of muscovite.

Muscovite is the most common mica, found in granites, pegmatites, gneisses, and schists, and as a contact metamorphic rock or as a secondary mineral resulting from the alteration of topaz, feldspar, kyanite, etc.

Fuchsite on the contrary , as a secondary mineral, results quite often from the alteration of ruby and emerald.