Thursday, 20 January 2011

enormous jewels

Cagliostro in a house near Trinita di monti, making gems bigger...













Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal. The thing was generally complete, but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings, and I took one up for a better look at it. Quartz it seemed to be.

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