Natural lapis lazuli – royal blue raw piece with golden...

This exceptionally intense lapis lazuli raw specimen captivates with its deep, rich royal blue—a color quality that for thousands of years has stood as the epitome of luxury and rarity. The surface displays an impressive depth of color with hardly any lightening, making the blue appear especially powerful and pure. Finely embedded pyrite particles run through the rock like golden points of light in the night sky. These natural inclusions give the piece a vivid, almost cosmic aura and underline its high quality. Occasional bright calcite zones at the matrix edge provide a natural contrast and emphasize the stone’s original character. The compact, massive form showcases the exceptional color intensity particularly well. Each view reveals new golden accents and fine structures in the dense ultramarine blue. A rare, particularly color-rich collectible in gemstone quality—powerful, expressive, and of timeless elegance. Weight: 5192.83 g Gem Type: 100% Natural Lapis Lazuli Freeform Raw Shape: Freeform Size: 180x160x145 mm Origin: Afghanistan Treatment: None Hardness: 5-6 It is considered to be a protection from psychic attacks, bringing deep peace, harmony, reveals inner truth, honesty, compassion, self-awareness, and self-expression. Because of its healing powers, Lapis lazuli is celebrated as being The Wisdom Stone. Pictures taken when wet! Our shipping costs are checked and acknowledged by Catawiki. We have an external shipping company that handles final inspection, pickup, packaging, and shipping; this is what incurs the shipping costs. The buyer bears all possible import and export costs, customs duties, shipping costs, etc. See also our other items and shipping costs, saving pickup costs.. In some of the pictures the stone was backlit to show you the color of the stone. In some stones we have held a light under the stone to better show the color of the pieces. And color variations may occur, as every computer, monitor, and phone can display different color qualities.

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