Fossilized Chrysanthemum Stone

Origination: China
Approximate Height - 61.5" - Width - 27" - Depth - 8"
Fossilized Chysanthemum Stone: $22,00.00 U.S.D.
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Extremely rare, very large size museum-quality specimen: fossilized Chrysanthemum stone.

Found in Liuyang County in Hunan Province in China:
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Chrysanthemum stone ,which was shaped over 200 million years ago, is found in the rock of the bottom of Daxi River in Yonghe town, Liu Yang city, Hunan province,China. The stone contains patterns exactly like chrysanthemum, so it is called chrysanthemum stone. It is natural, rare and unparalleled. It is unique in the world. In 1915, China exhibited one chrysanthemum stone in the International Expo held in Panama. It gained the golden prize and obtained the title of —The first in the world. With the nickname of stone of Wealth & Honor, Chrysanthemum stone took shape as the result of severe geological changes in the Permian period 270 million years ago (prior to Dinosaur Era.) At that time, some silt in the Sea bottom and some marine organisms sank deeply into the earth and, after several hundred million years of high temperature and high pressure formed into chrysanthemum stone. Chrysanthemum stone mainly consists of two kind of rocks, one of them is reddish black stone, it has no nature of radiation, contains no substances harmful to human beings health. In addition to that, the reddish black stone consists of abundant micro elements good for health, such as selenium, strontium and bismuth, etc.

It originated in the overhanging cliffs and in the rapids of riverbed in the region of Three George's. The white of the chrysanthemum "flower" contains gypsum clay, dolomite and limestone, with internal crystals of calcite, feldspar, and celestite. With black and white sharply contrasted, the chrysanthemum stone has a smooth nature and lifelike patterns. It appears as if glazed, felt as if jade, it is unique, rare and marvelous, the pattern on every stone is a treasure. The layout of the patterns is easy and smooth, better than the works produced by famous Chinese painting artists. Most of the pattern consists of chrysanthemum flowers and butterflies. The quantity of Great Chrysanthemum stone is very small and its exploitation is very difficult. As a result of that, the stone is very rare and their value is high.

The Chrysanthemum stone with its flowery white patterns on a black background, occurs naturally in the Hunan region of China. It symbolizes longevity in Chinese lore The Chrysanthemum Stone Flower has been highly prized as a marvel of nature. Once polished and carved to show the wondrous flower, it is a soothing object for contemplation and meditation. Chrysanthemum stone has been mined in China and carved into decoration objects for over 200 years. The best of these objects are preserved in the Palace Museum of China,. The first studied occurrence was the chrysanthemum stone from Liuyang, Hunan, celestite was indicated as the primary, early digenetic mineral. For the last mentioned occurrences, celestite was again as- summed to be the primary mineral (Zhao et al. 1998) al- though other occurrences lack primary celestite or were presumably altered to an appreciable degree, and transformation of primary aragonite into calcite with a release of strontium which forms celestite of the rosettes only to be replaced again by calcite. The white "flower" on this stone is NATURALLY formed Andalusite and the black matrix is limestone. Andalusite is an aluminum nesosilicate mineral and it was first found in Andalucia, Spain in 1789.

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