The Eleanor of Aquitaine vase, in the Louvre, Paris.
A rock crystal vase is a vase made of rock crystal, a type of hardstone carving. Such vases were rare, expensive, and decorated with gold and jewels, used by royalty in Europe.
(film), a 2004 film RockCrystal (novella), an 1845 novella by Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter Rockcrystalvase, a type of decorative vase a ewer typical...
these events The rockcrystalvase originally belonged to Eleanor's grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine. Louis donated Eleanor's vase to Suger, who in...
jewelry and hardstone carving, including engraved gems and cameo gems, rockcrystalvases, and extravagant vessels. The tradition continued to produce objects...
only existing artefact of Eleanor's to exist today. The vases de Suger series of commissioned vases Suger wrote several works, which are regarded for their...
typically only 25–75mm long or wide, and small vases with a few flowers—the vase and "water" in rockcrystal and the flowers in various hardstones and enamel...
substance. It is retained from the Venetian word cristallo to describe the rockcrystal (quartz) imitated by Murano glassmakers. This naming convention has been...
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition...
from the Carolingian period, when rockcrystal was the commonest material. The Lothair Crystal (or Suzanna Crystal, British Museum, 11.5 cm diameter)...
looked like rockcrystal or clear quartz, which had long been carved into various types of vessels and small hardstone carvings. Rockcrystal was said to...
180-200 CE, found in Tongeren, Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren) The "Rubens Vase" (Byzantine Empire). Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate,...
Under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134. BRILL. ISBN 9004103678. The rockcrystal "Eleanor vase" given by Eleanor of Aquitaine to the Basilica of Saint Denis...
items such as vases, seals, and snuff boxes. The density of jasper is typically 2.5 to 2.9 g/cm3. Jaspillite is a banded-iron-formation rock that often has...
globular vase-like lamp. This unusual shape can be explained in part by the material from which they were made: the high price of rockcrystal and the...
rockcrystal. The surface of the top layer elements is flat rather than carved as in the earlier group of pieces. The other side of the Portland Vase...
story of a young boy, Steven Universe (Zach Callison), who lives with the Crystal Gems—magical, mineral-based aliens named Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela...
firm of Le Roy et fils, 1881, silver, partly enameled gold, hardstones, rockcrystal, amethysts, and diamonds, Metropolitan Museum of Art Gothic Revival architecture...
clock-cases – a specialty of Charles Cressent (1685–1768) – complemented by rock-crystal drops on gilt-bronze chandeliers and wall-lights. The bronze mounts were...
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