1.37 kg Dragon's Blood Jasper – Death Struggle, Moss Green, Collector’s Piece – 12.0 x 7.8 x 9.5 cm Skull- 1.37 g
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Skull‑shaped specimen of dragon blood jasper from West Australia, green mossy colour, weighing 1.37 kg and measuring 12.0 x 7.8 x 9.5 cm; a collector’s piece.
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Nowhere, as Pliny the Elder wrote, are elephants bigger than in India, and there their mortal enemies live: dragons, so immense that they can easily coil around an elephant and bind it in their folds. This fight ends for both with death. The defeated elephant collapses and, with his weight, crushes the dragon that holds him clasped. What flowed there, the Indians knew as color: their vermilion, Pliny reports, was the sap of a dragon, crushed beneath the weight of dying elephants and mingled with the blood of both animals. No other red, he adds, captures the blood so faithfully in painting.
This skull bears the traces of such a fight. On the right ear sits a bright, twisted, almost double-helix-shaped formation, like an ear ornament or like the noose with which the dragon wrapped around its opponent. On the other side lie black, porous areas like impact markings, as if some enormous weight had struck it. Over everything, an olive-green, mossy cloak spreads, interspersed with dots, stains, and veins in yellow-green, gray, and red. Around the mouth on the right side, however, the red gathers, as if he had bitten his lips and tongue under enormous pressure. It seems to run from mouth, eye, and ear at once—the blood of two foes that can no longer be separated.
In the stone these opponents are indeed related. The green comes from epidote, the red from piemontite, named after Piedmont in Italy. Both belong to the same mineral family and differ mainly by a single element: where epidote contains iron and turns green, piemontite carries manganese, and that makes it red. Dragon and elephant died entwined. In this skull, green and red are two adversaries from the same blood.
Material: Epidote-piemontite rock (trade name “Dragon’s Blood Jasper”) – green epidote with red piemontite as well as light quartz/chalcedony portions
Origin: Western Australia
Dimensions: 12.0 x 7.8 x 9.5 cm
Weight: 1.37 kg
Special features: Twisted, bright quartz/chalcedony formation at the right ear; black, porous, crater-like depressions (natural hollows) on the left side; red piemontite drawing around the mouth on the right side; olive-green, mossy base color with yellow-green and red inclusions
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.
Nowhere, as Pliny the Elder wrote, are elephants bigger than in India, and there their mortal enemies live: dragons, so immense that they can easily coil around an elephant and bind it in their folds. This fight ends for both with death. The defeated elephant collapses and, with his weight, crushes the dragon that holds him clasped. What flowed there, the Indians knew as color: their vermilion, Pliny reports, was the sap of a dragon, crushed beneath the weight of dying elephants and mingled with the blood of both animals. No other red, he adds, captures the blood so faithfully in painting.
This skull bears the traces of such a fight. On the right ear sits a bright, twisted, almost double-helix-shaped formation, like an ear ornament or like the noose with which the dragon wrapped around its opponent. On the other side lie black, porous areas like impact markings, as if some enormous weight had struck it. Over everything, an olive-green, mossy cloak spreads, interspersed with dots, stains, and veins in yellow-green, gray, and red. Around the mouth on the right side, however, the red gathers, as if he had bitten his lips and tongue under enormous pressure. It seems to run from mouth, eye, and ear at once—the blood of two foes that can no longer be separated.
In the stone these opponents are indeed related. The green comes from epidote, the red from piemontite, named after Piedmont in Italy. Both belong to the same mineral family and differ mainly by a single element: where epidote contains iron and turns green, piemontite carries manganese, and that makes it red. Dragon and elephant died entwined. In this skull, green and red are two adversaries from the same blood.
Material: Epidote-piemontite rock (trade name “Dragon’s Blood Jasper”) – green epidote with red piemontite as well as light quartz/chalcedony portions
Origin: Western Australia
Dimensions: 12.0 x 7.8 x 9.5 cm
Weight: 1.37 kg
Special features: Twisted, bright quartz/chalcedony formation at the right ear; black, porous, crater-like depressions (natural hollows) on the left side; red piemontite drawing around the mouth on the right side; olive-green, mossy base color with yellow-green and red inclusions
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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1.37 kg Dragon's Blood Jasper – Death Struggle, Moss Green, Collector’s Piece – 12.0 x 7.8 x 9.5 cm
Mineral form
Skull
Weight
1.37 g
Country of origin
Australia
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