Now, of course, the avid pursuit of lazuli buntings and Blackburnian warblers is no longer merely a hobby. |
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Garnet, jade and lapis lazuli are crystals formed from rock which has quite literally transformed its shape and appearance. |
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To the Buddhists, lapis lazuli brought peace of mind and equanimity and dispelled evil thoughts. |
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Much Afghan jewelry features lapis lazuli, a navy blue semiprecious stone that's mined in the mountains. |
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The hammered gold evokes the sun, the lapis lazuli the sea, the carnelian the blood and fire of life. |
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Directly before her stood an ornate set of scales decorated in gold, carnelian and lapis lazuli. |
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Through its association with Venus, Taurus has affinity with Copper, marcasite, alabaster, lapis lazuli and chrysolite. |
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Precious stones like turquoise and lapis lazuli came from the West and silk from China via Central Asia. |
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The Russian candelabrum of lapis lazuli and gilt bronze shown in Plate V is an example of the fine work of Russian lapidaries. |
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Powdered lapis lazuli and malachite provided richness of colour, and metallic pigments were made from gold, silver, and copper. |
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It was a mixture of curvy furniture and extravagant materials, including lapis lazuli, ivory, amazonite, ebony, horn, and rose quartz. |
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There was exquisite pottery, clay figurines and animals, beads of lapis lazuli, silver and shell, as well as the usual weights and seals. |
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Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds, and many more gems I couldn't name adorned his neck, wrists, hands and ankles. |
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Garnet, emerald, jade, and lapis lazuli are among the gemstones created by metamorphic processes. |
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A beautifully decorated lyre from Ur depicts similar figures in lapis lazuli and shell. |
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These works ranged from swirling, meditative patterns of onyx and white to startling hues of lapis lazuli. |
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Afghanistan is the world's leading producer of the stone lapis lazuli, which is made into jewelry. |
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Donaldson's first job was for a private client who wanted her bathroom completely decorated in lapis lazuli. |
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The little girls wore strings of lapis lazuli, and the little boys blue Chinese Wellies. |
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This bird, oh so sleek in its aerodynamic coat of black, white, and iridescent lapis lazuli, is one of the most beautiful species anywhere. |
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Gregory covers the surface of his skulls in malachite, pearl or lapis lazuli. |
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It was a beautiful golden ring, decorated with coral and lapis lazuli. |
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Vermeer is the only painter known to have ground lapis lazuli into tiny particles of ultramarine and painted it on the background. |
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These are beautifully decorated, with white marble lattice and marble mosaics studded with green jade, lapis lazuli and agate. |
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A classic vintage in the Pécharmant appellation with a deep, intense colour flecked with lapis lazuli. |
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To the left is a French Empire period table decorated with onyx, malachite and lapis lazuli. |
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Calendar pages include psychedelic zodiac signs and other marginalia, painted with lapis lazuli, gold leaf, and other precious materials. |
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The blue shades are sapphires set in white gold, or, more dramatically, as flowers of tanzanite and lapis lazuli with snow-white pistils. |
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Azurite is even cheaper, though lapis lazuli is usually preferred for its better color and hardness. |
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The tesserae material is often exquisite: silver, gold, and lapis lazuli and other semiprecious stones. |
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In 1918 his collection included a lizard bag with marcasite and a buckle of lapis lazuli. |
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Also he had a figure of Nuit greater than a woman, which was made of lapis lazuli specked with gold, carved with marvellous excellence. |
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The second is adorned with gemstones such as black onyx, ruby, jade, opal or lapis lazuli. |
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Lapis lazuli, mentioned as a gemstone 50,000 years ago, occurs for instance in Afghanistan, Chile and Burma. |
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It exhibits the same meticulous detail and refined finish, only varying in the addition of a lapis lazuli stand and in some minor heraldic details. |
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Blue stones, such as lapis lazuli, and red stones are often added. |
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Her glistening black hair was encircled by a crown of animal figures carved from lapis lazuli intertwined and connected by vines and leaves of knotted beaten copper. |
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De Abano in the fourteenth century included mercury, copper, lapis lazuli, arsenic sublimate, litharge, nux vomica, laurel berries, and hellebore in his De Remedis Venenorum. |
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One of the major surprises in October has been the discovery of the original colour used for the sky: a lapis lazuli blue, its purity and luminosity bringing forth a greater depth in this pictorial masterpiece. |
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The dials in lapis lazuli, mokaite and meteorite were used in eight models only, as were the deep black onyx or aventurine, with its subtle shades of blue varying with the light. |
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Already a great success for a number of years, the Masse Oscillante cufflinks, presented in 2008 the Breguet oscillating weight in white or yellow gold on a disc of lapis lazuli. |
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By far the most stable and brightest blue, it had to be painstakingly extracted from lapis lazuli mined in the Sar-e-Sang mines in northern Afghanistan and then shipped along the Silk Road to Venice. |
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Thirty minas of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both. |
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Osiris on a lapis lazuli pillar in the middle, flanked by Horus on the left, and Isis on the right, 22nd dynasty, Louvre. |
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One common product, the lapis lazuli, was a blue stone with golden specks, which was used as paint after it was ground into powder. |
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Blue glazes were first developed by ancient Mesopotamians to imitate lapis lazuli, which was a highly prized stone. |
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The only place lapis lazuli could be obtained was Afghanistan. |
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Semiprecious stones and other materials used in association with them included rock crystal, carnelian, jasper, nephrite, and obsidian, all native to Anatolia, along with imported ivory, amber, and lapis lazuli. |
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It exists in the museum a vault with diverse pieces of orfebrerÃa in metals like gold and silver, and semiprecious stones like the lapis lazuli, the turquesa, the quartz and the amethyst. |
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The use of seashells and of various semiprecious stones, including turquoise and lapis lazuli, indicates the existence of trade networks extending from the coast and perhaps also from Central Asia. |
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Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids. |
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There the remains of a small Harappan colony, presumably sited so as to provide control of the lapis lazuli export trade originating in neighbouring Badakhshan, have been excavated by a French team. |
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It bears similarities to lapis lazuli, though they are chemically quite different, since the blue color of lapis derives from lazurite, a sodium silico-aluminate in a sulfur matrix. |
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Like Georg Jensen jewelry, many holloware pieces were embellished with semiprecious stones like amber, amethyst, garnet, lapis lazuli, malachite, opal and quartz. |
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This has allowed the original lapis lazuli blue of the sky to reappear. |
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The Persian lapis lazuli used to obtain the deepest shades of blue endows the manuscript with a lavishness comparable only with the effect produced by gold leaf. |
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And of all the rocks for such metal the best is a blue stone called lapis lazuli, which has a blue colour similar to the sapphire, but is neither so transparent nor so hard. |
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These included jasper, bowenite, rhodonite, rock crystal, agate, aventurine, quartz, lapis, lazuli andjade. |
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This bottle is recognisable as an example of the type known as 'lajvardina' by its white, red and black paint with gold leaf on a blue base. This latter gives the style its name, as lajvard mean lapis lazuli in Persian. |
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The jewellery range includes necklaces, bangles, rings and earrings featuring semiprecious stones such as agate, yellow tiger's eye and lapis lazuli. |
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While some colours were obtained from local sources, others were imported from the Mediterranean, and rare pigments such as lapis lazuli would have come from the Himalayas. |
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Some of the noteworthy gemstones featured in rings this spring are opaque, sultry gems like moonstone, hematite, rutilated quartz, lapis lazuli and labradorite. |
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