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Uncut Gems was a large influence on developing the visual language and camera work in the Pixar film Inside Out 2, and many of its elements were used in the film. The film's main characters are personifications of the feelings of Riley, a teenage girl, and Uncut Gems influenced the framing of Anxiety's scenes, particularly when Anxiety takes ...
Bahia Emerald [2] Carolina Emperor, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] 310 carats uncut, 64.8 carats cut; discovered in the United States in 2009, resides in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences , Raleigh, NC, US Chalk Emerald
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.
Three of the Treasure's Trove jewels were original pieces, including a 19th-century Russian grasshopper, a snail and a ladybug. [11] Another jewel, representing the villain Rusful, was an uncut black diamond. [12] The rest of the jewels were made by Robert Q. Underhill of Jewelry Designs in Danbury, Connecticut.
Unlike the Crown Jewels—which mainly date from the accession of Charles II—the jewels are not official regalia or insignia. Much of the collection was designed for queens regnant and queens consort, though some kings have added to the collection. Most of the jewellery was purchased from other European heads of state and members of the ...
He" was Bian He (卞和), who found a marvelous piece of raw jade that went cruelly unrecognized by successive Chu monarchs until it was finally acknowledged as a priceless jewel. The c. 3rd–1st century BCE Chuci ("Songs of Chu") mentions the paired gems, "Shards and stones are prized as jewels / Sui and He rejected". This poetic anthology ...
Red Jasper is the third stone in the third row of the priestly breastplate, representing the tribe of Issachar (Exodus 28:19, [2] 39:12 [3]); the Septuagint enumerates it among the riches of the King of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:13 [4]). Jasper is an anhydrate quartz composed of silica, alumina, and iron and there are jaspers of nearly every color ...