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• n  an azure blue semiprecious stone

• The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste.
• Nguyen Thanh Chau liked to capture the beauty of pink lotuses, malachite melaleuca trees and turquoise marshes under a lapis lazuli sky.
• The background music is low funk, and A-Mei hums her way up the spectrum, eyes closed, past turquoise, sapphire and lapis lazuli.

• lapis lazuli

News & Articles

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• Ancient Jewels From Meteors
  Meteoric iron beads (center) are pictured between ancient Egyptian necklaces that are strung with tube-shaped lapis lazuli (blue), carnelian (brownish/red), agate, and gold beads.
  Aug. 20, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Lauren Collins in New Yorker
  Collins writes, "A stalled negotiation might have elicited from her jewelry box a tortoise in lapis lazuli; a friendly summit, the dandelion with a moonstone for its puff; a contentious encounter, a turquoise wasp or a copper-pincered crab."