This antique coral, carved with dragons—the Chinese symbol of good fortune—is topped with a handmade 22K gold basket cradling a tiny Dyer Mine turquoise from Nevada’s Esmeralda County, one of the rarest blues in American turquoise.
A wee lantern, lit blue. Coral is the stone of life force—living material, constantly renewing, associated with the blood and with the fierce, animal will to survive and flourish.