The cocktail ring shown here is made of a cushion-cut red tourmaline bursting from an almost messy bed of flat rose-cut diamonds.
Take, for example, the chandelier earrings, whose asymmetrical aquamarines are suspended almost haphazardly between pink sapphires and white diamonds, or the cocktail ring made of a cushion-cut red tourmaline bursting from a bed of flat, rose-cut diamonds.
The Primavera Gallery in Manhattan is to show a large gold iris brooch encrusted with red tourmalines, diamonds and green garnets from Russia at the International 20th-Century Arts Fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory, which runs from Nov. 25 to 29.
A gold brooch set with an ancient gold coin picturing Philip II of Macedonia has diamonds, blue topazes, amethysts, peridots and pink and red tourmalines.
Another piece, a gold brooch set with an ancient gold coin that pictures Philip II of Macedonia, has patterns made of diamonds, blue topazes, amethysts, peridots, and pink and red tourmalines.
One rock was black (tourmaline), one red (feldspar), and one brown: a meteorite.
Crane.tv's choice: 'Euphoria of Lights,' the Comte's pyramid ring, which is an 18 carat red gold ring adorned with tourmalines, rubies and orange sapphires.
Among the new pieces Mr Chan will be showing at the next biennale, which opens on September 11th, will be "Vividity", a brooch containing a 64-carat Elbaite tourmaline of deep pinky-red nestling in a burst of rubies, coloured diamonds and green tourmalines (pictured).His collectors come mostly from China's rising wealthy elite and the occasional European royal, including Prince Henrik of Denmark.
On the other hand, tourmaline may show many colours (red, blue, green, brown, and black) as well as distinct colour zonation, from colourless through pink to green, within a single crystal.
