Rutilated quartz and reverse painted oval box, carved from a single piece of fine Brazilian rutilated smoky quartz. The hinged lid formed of a large oval rutilated quartz cabochon, in which the retiles appear to depict seaweed on the ocean floor.
Quartz is reverse painted with several tropical fish (including a clown fish), the painting is backed with mother-of-pearl to complete the illusion of a seascape. Completed by 18K yellow gold fittings, hinge and borders.

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