82g Ocean Jasper – Old from the Sea, Shape-Shifter, Chalk White – 5.0 x 3.7 x 3.2 cm Skull- 82 g
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Ocean Jasper – Alter vom Meer, Wandelgestalt, chalk white, skull-shaped meteorite from Marovato, Analalava District, Madagascar; weight 82 g; dimensions 5.1 × 3.9 × 3.3 cm.
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Before the island Pharos, as Homer tells in the fourth book of the Odyssey, lived Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, who knows the depths of all seas. Every noon he emerged from the waves, counted his seals on the shore, and lay down among them to rest. Menelaus, on his way home from Troy, was detained there and tried to wring the way back to his homeland from him. Proteus’ daughter Eidothea dug them and their companions a trench in the sand and covered them with freshly peeled seal skins. When they seized the old man, he transformed into a lion, a snake, a panther, and a mighty wild boar, then into flowing water and a densely leaved tree. Yet they did not let go until he took back his own form and gave them an answer.
This skull also harbors many shapes within itself and remains as down-to-earth as the sand of that shore. It reveals the sea bottom in all its variety, pleasantly polished and as if aged by the water. On both sides a chalky, pale white spreads out. Upon it rest sand-colored, ochre, and rust-brown patches like iron companions of the seafloor. Tiny white spheres sit there like air bubbles that never reached the surface. Across the skull runs a pale-yellow, finely speckled stripe, adding another form to the image.
Ocean Jasper is, despite its name, not a classic jasper, but a silicified rhyolite, i.e., volcanic rock that has been penetrated by silica afterwards. Its spherical “eyes” are spherulites: they formed when mineral fibers grew radially around tiny nuclei. The chalky white is opaque chalcedony, and the warm sand and rust tones come from iron oxides. The material comes exclusively from Marovato on the northwest coast of Madagascar, whose veins today are considered exhausted.
Material: Ocean Jasper – silicified rhyolite with orbicular chalcedony pattern (not a classic jasper)
Origin: Marovato, Analalava District, Madagascar
Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
Weight: 82 g
Special features: Chalk-white base on both skull sides with sand-, ochre- and rust-colored patches; small white spherical eyes (spherulites); pale-yellow finely speckled stripe across the skull top; occasional delicate reddish patches on the nasal ridge and eye socket
Seller's Story
Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig.
Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden.
In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.
Before the island Pharos, as Homer tells in the fourth book of the Odyssey, lived Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, who knows the depths of all seas. Every noon he emerged from the waves, counted his seals on the shore, and lay down among them to rest. Menelaus, on his way home from Troy, was detained there and tried to wring the way back to his homeland from him. Proteus’ daughter Eidothea dug them and their companions a trench in the sand and covered them with freshly peeled seal skins. When they seized the old man, he transformed into a lion, a snake, a panther, and a mighty wild boar, then into flowing water and a densely leaved tree. Yet they did not let go until he took back his own form and gave them an answer.
This skull also harbors many shapes within itself and remains as down-to-earth as the sand of that shore. It reveals the sea bottom in all its variety, pleasantly polished and as if aged by the water. On both sides a chalky, pale white spreads out. Upon it rest sand-colored, ochre, and rust-brown patches like iron companions of the seafloor. Tiny white spheres sit there like air bubbles that never reached the surface. Across the skull runs a pale-yellow, finely speckled stripe, adding another form to the image.
Ocean Jasper is, despite its name, not a classic jasper, but a silicified rhyolite, i.e., volcanic rock that has been penetrated by silica afterwards. Its spherical “eyes” are spherulites: they formed when mineral fibers grew radially around tiny nuclei. The chalky white is opaque chalcedony, and the warm sand and rust tones come from iron oxides. The material comes exclusively from Marovato on the northwest coast of Madagascar, whose veins today are considered exhausted.
Material: Ocean Jasper – silicified rhyolite with orbicular chalcedony pattern (not a classic jasper)
Origin: Marovato, Analalava District, Madagascar
Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
Weight: 82 g
Special features: Chalk-white base on both skull sides with sand-, ochre- and rust-colored patches; small white spherical eyes (spherulites); pale-yellow finely speckled stripe across the skull top; occasional delicate reddish patches on the nasal ridge and eye socket
Seller's Story
Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig.
Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden.
In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.
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Main mineral
82g Ocean Jasper – Old from the Sea, Shape-Shifter, Chalk White – 5.0 x 3.7 x 3.2 cm
Mineral form
Skull
Weight
82 g
Origin (region/city)
Marovato, Analalava District
Country of origin
Madagascar
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