Three Amethyst Bird Carvings by Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio


The tallest, consisting of two amethyst parrots with carnelian eyes, raised on a nearly optically clear base, trimmed in gold vermeil, on a circular plinth of black obsidian, height 5in; together with an amethyst carving of a sparrow on a curved rock crystal branch, height 3in; and three amethyst ducks on a rutliated quartz base, length 4 in. (3)