Carvings
Emerald Octopus
An octopus in emerald, arms uncoiling from the crystal's own base.
- Gemstone
- Emerald
- Origin
- Nigerian
- Technique
- hand-carved, polished
- Carat weight
- 40.50 ct
- Gram weight
- 8.1 g
- Dimensions
- 32 × 19.8 × 13 mm
All measurements are taken by hand; slight variations may occur.
An octopus with its mantle raised, hand-carved from a single emerald: two arms curled into spirals, the rest sweeping outward and down to the surface it rests on. The head is polished smooth, and the suckers run as fine raised rows along the arms. Unmounted, it stands on its own coiled arms. The reach of the arms was read from the rough and left as it grew — no second stone would repeat the spread.
