| Coral sculptures are a delicate and requires a lot of | | | | reddish color tones, many items from jewelry to |
| patience for sculpting. Being a hard material to work | | | | sculpture are derived from this product of nature. |
| with, artists need to have skill and time to handcraft | | | | With this naturally intense glossiness and permanent |
| unique works of art. Natural ocean coral is a delicate | | | | vibration of colorization, natural oceanic Red Coral has |
| but hard material to work with. Red ocean bottom | | | | historically and is presently manipulated into many |
| coral is the precious material, most common artistically | | | | forms of sculpture. Coral jewelry has been discovered |
| used form for coral sculptures. This formation of | | | | archaeologically in ancient Egyptian and prehistoric |
| natural coral is found at very deep depths of our | | | | European burials, along with crafted modern desired |
| marina ocean sea bottoms. Red Coral is one of the | | | | collectible items of our modern day. Due to the |
| most desired types of ocean coral to work with | | | | softness and opacity, coral is commonly molded into |
| sculpting artists for density. It sets within the deepest | | | | beads along with formative types of animated |
| of the ocean depths with low sedimentation and in | | | | sculptures. |
| very dark cavern and crevice depths. The original | | | | Historically coral is connected all the way back to |
| species and several other related marine coral species | | | | Greek mythology. Within the Greek story of Perseus |
| are mainly found on ocean bottom at a depth of 10 to | | | | inadvertently concurs the sea monster Andromeda |
| 30 meters below. | | | | with Medusa's blood that turns to coral. Perseus place |
| The Atlantic was at one time, the main original | | | | Medusa head on the riverbank while washing his hands |
| gathering grounds for Red Coral until close depletion of | | | | after the concurring aftermath of Medusa. As the |
| the main Red Coral areas from harvesting. Within | | | | blood of Medusa flowed, coral was formed, |
| recent years, there has been a healthy harvesting of | | | | adventitiously defeating Andromeda. Within the Roman |
| the discovered material, near the Strait of Gibraltar and | | | | culture, there was belief of protection from harm by |
| next to the Taiwan oceanic area close by the strong | | | | coral as well as a cure to wound made by snakes |
| currents. Red Coral has a gift of past and present | | | | and scorpion along with diagnosis of diseases by the |
| beauty for the collectors desiring this gift of earthly | | | | coral color changing. |
| nature. | | | | Today, various types of coral are well manipulated into |
| The Red Coral preferred for sculpting, grows upon the | | | | a wide variety of beautifully designed items, from |
| deep rocky bottom in very dark environments, most | | | | jewelry to delicate sculptures. From historical Romans |
| often resembling small leafless bushes measuring up to | | | | to our current artistic worldly cultures of today, the |
| a meter tall. The Red Coral is a skeleton mixture of | | | | oceans gift of this precious material is manipulated, |
| hard calcium carbonate. This is a natural product that | | | | designed and sculptured into a welcome beauty of for |
| can be polished to a fine glassy shine with a flowing | | | | us to enjoy from some of the deepest depths of our |
| range from a range of warm pink to the darker | | | | world. |