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Along with evidence of soldiers’ daily provisions, researchers found accessories and toiletries, like ivory applicators for kohl eyeliner, necklaces of carnelian and faience beads shaped like pomegranate blossoms, and scarabs engraved with deities’ names, per the statement.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
The first iteration was decorated with over 20 black and white clovers, but today there are plenty of variations to add to your jewelry box—from malachite to carnelian to tiger’s eye.
—Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
The delicate intaglios, fashioned from amethyst, jasper and carnelian, range in diameter from 5 millimeters to 16 millimeters — bigger than a pencil eraser, smaller than a dime.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
The Alhambra collection — Van Cleef & Arpels’ token of luck — features an alternating watch band of warm carnelian and rose gold clover-like shapes, and this installation at South Coast Plaza marks its pre-launch.
—Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
In Manhattan, for instance, there will be a limited-edition carnelian Big Apple necklace set in rose gold along with two limited-edition Happy Sport watches featuring a mobile apple, as well as a L.U.C. Quattro Spirit 25 Fifth Avenue Edition.
—Alexis Wolfe, ELLE, 13 Dec. 2022
And a beautiful example of Louis Comfort Tiffany daring eye, a lapis, turquoise and carnelian necklace inspired by a personal trip to Egypt in 1908.
—Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2022
The other central element in the Perlée collection is a pop of color in the form of ornamental, opaque stones, including turquoise, black onyx, green malachite, carnelian, lapis lazuli, coral or mother-of-pearl.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
My vote goes to a four-strand set of blazing carnelian and gold, with pendants carved like the seedpods of poppies.
—Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
The first iteration was decorated with over 20 black and white clovers, but today there are plenty of variations to add to your jewelry box—from malachite to carnelian to tiger’s eye.
—Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
The delicate intaglios, fashioned from amethyst, jasper and carnelian, range in diameter from 5 millimeters to 16 millimeters — bigger than a pencil eraser, smaller than a dime.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
The Alhambra collection — Van Cleef & Arpels’ token of luck — features an alternating watch band of warm carnelian and rose gold clover-like shapes, and this installation at South Coast Plaza marks its pre-launch.
—Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
In Manhattan, for instance, there will be a limited-edition carnelian Big Apple necklace set in rose gold along with two limited-edition Happy Sport watches featuring a mobile apple, as well as a L.U.C. Quattro Spirit 25 Fifth Avenue Edition.
—Alexis Wolfe, ELLE, 13 Dec. 2022
And a beautiful example of Louis Comfort Tiffany daring eye, a lapis, turquoise and carnelian necklace inspired by a personal trip to Egypt in 1908.
—Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2022
The other central element in the Perlée collection is a pop of color in the form of ornamental, opaque stones, including turquoise, black onyx, green malachite, carnelian, lapis lazuli, coral or mother-of-pearl.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
My vote goes to a four-strand set of blazing carnelian and gold, with pendants carved like the seedpods of poppies.
—Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
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carnelian
noun
car·ne·lian
kär-ˈnēl-yən 
: a hard tough reddish quartz used as a gem
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