Nadia Basük ART

Art Deco danglers....

A pair of Art Deco amethyst and diamond earrings, circa 1925. Supremely elegant with a pastel shade of purple, I love the diamond inset into the amethyst! via Simon Teakle

My fashion illustration 2023

A pop of color for Saturday!

Award-winning earrings and necklace created by Freelance jewellery designer Stasia Parker, last year's 2D Peridot Jewellery Design gold winner, at the Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards 2022. The pieces are combined with over 400 gemstones and Fuli Gemstones' bespoke hexagon cut peridot.

Wings of flight...

Verdura gold Winged brooch featuring pink topaz and diamonds, circa 1938.

The coach covers....

A pair of antique diamond drops with “coach covers”.
The Etruscan ball lockets hid the diamonds whilst traveling to protect them from robbers. Via Spicer Warin

Тут ще леопардів бракує👍

That carving...

Anniversary Cross made of gold, aquamarine and diamonds by Tiffany Circa 1890; Frame Circa 1936

In 1936, the celebrated American jeweller, Tiffany, made this piece by using a cross that was created much earlier in the Gilded Age. It was given to a popular Roman Catholic priest by his friends and parishioners on the tenth anniversary of his ordination into the priesthood. Now owned by the Albion Art Institute

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My kind of garden critter...

Art Nouveu Bee Brooch 1900, France

Malachite

Malachite is a mineral that forms at shallow depths within the Earth, in the oxidizing zone above copper deposits. It is rarely found as a crystal, however the crystals are typically acicular to tabular in shape and bright green in color, translucent, and with a vitreous luster. Malachite has been used as a pigment for thousands of years. This mineral is an excellent material for producing a powdered pigment, as it can easily be ground into a fine powder. It was one of the oldest known green pigments to be used in paintings, and its green color does not fade over time or when exposed to light.

Credit: Chinellato Matteo

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Sailing away...

Pendant in the form of a ship, enamelled gold, silver, opal, diamond sparks and tourmalines, England (by the Guild of Handicraft), about 1903.

The Concert
(agate from Brazil) fits quite well with summertime.

Celestine on Barite-
Killik Mine, Emet, Aegean Region, Turkey.
9.4cm × 6cm × 4.7 cm
A beige matrix of Barite surrounds a vug of sparkling tiny snow white Celestine crystals, accented with aquamarine blue, gemmy, end-pointed Celestine crystals, all perched within the vug.
A one time small find from the 90's.

Esquel Meteorite-
Pallasite PMG
Esquel, Chubut Province (Patagonian Territory), Argentina.
Found in 1951
184 grams.
From my friend Matt Morgan.

Petrified wood- Spruce-
Jarbidge Rhyolite Formation,
Hubbard basin, Elko County, Nevada.
Early Miocene- 16.1 mya.
10" x 8"

"Crystallization is one of the most important dimensions of the illusion of form.” – Walter Russell, The Universal One

Astonishing Brookite blades On quartz cluster
Ghatt Mine , Kharan District , Baluchistan , Pakistan 🇵🇰

Photo: Ghulam Mustafa /Fine Art Minerals