Photo Notes 水晶球
Crystal ball, clear, size 7.8cm.
The ball is round, made of crystal, transparent, without any impurities blemish. The ball under the hollow carved mahogany pedestal.
In the natural crystal is very difficult to have a fully transparent, a little impurity without crystal. Shui Jingjing's body usually contain a large number of small solid or fluid inclusions, like cotton fibers distribution in crystal. Colorless crystal to crystal clear beautiful, clean and transparent and celebrated. This piece has no cracks and inclusions and other defects, is extremely precious works of art. The world's largest and transparent flawless crystal ball diameter of 21cm, weighing about ten kilograms, crystal clear and transparent, pure water, very valuable, are now stored in the Smith Museum of American art.