Pale aqua turquoise, soft and even, broken into islands by a warm golden-ochre matrix that deepens to cinnamon brown where it pools. Fine tan veins thread the blue, and in places a thin rim of green edges the gold. A high, smooth dome under a quiet polish, cut as a full oval. The back is bare matrix, gold traced with brown lines, with the blue showing only at its rim.
Persian turquoise, from Nishapur in northeastern Iran. Nishapur has been worked for more than two thousand years and is still mined today. Its turquoise has long been prized for its color and quality.
High-grade, natural and unbacked, cut from old-stock Nishapur rough that was recently found in storage and newly cabbed (Rudy Ridge). Ready for a silversmith to set.
Its height and size would sit well in a ring or a small pendant.
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