Smelting Quartz Sphere red L3 - polished smelted quartz sculpture

This large Red Smelted Quartz Sphere is beautiful and fascinating with its cloud-like inclusions! The material is made from melting quartz in the presence of another compound (called a flux) which lowers the melting temperature. In smelted quartz, when adding raw materials such as manganese (Mn) the result will be violet crystal, adding cobalt (Co) will be blue crystal, etc. Quartz is in such abundance in China and labor is so cheap that they can afford to melt down the crystal, remove all the impurities and add color as they see fit. These items are beautiful and unique, but do not have the properties of natural quartz. They are actually very pure glass, having energy like everything else in the Universe. Glass brings together the traditional four elements; through fire and air the silica earth element is made molten and transformed into a liquid to then return to its earth state as a solid when cool.

This sphere is approximately 4.4" in diameter and weighs 1910 grams!   

Stand is not included but may be purchased separately if in stock.