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Vintage sixties orange alabaster marble ashtray

SKU: 971

Vintage sixties orange alabaster marble ashtray.

Beautiful handmade marble 60s ashtray from Italy. Alabaster in orange color nuances.

This ashtray is marked on the bottom with a sticker: Genuine Alabaster, Hand carved, Made in Italy

  • Height: 3 cm.
  • Length: 13 cm.
  • Width: 13 cm.

Alabaster is a mineral or rock that is soft and often used for carving, as well as being processed for plaster powder. The term is used in different ways by archaeologists and the stone processing industry on the one hand, and geologists on the other. The first use is in a wider meaning, covering varieties of two different minerals: the fine-grained massive type of gypsum, as well as the fine-grained banded type of calcite. Geologists only define the gypsum variety as alabaster. Chemically, gypsum is a hydrous sulfate of calcium, while calcite is a carbonate of calcium.

The calcite variety is also known as onyx-marble, Egyptian alabaster, or Oriental alabaster and is geologically described as either a compact banded travertine or "a stalagmitic limestone marked with patterns of swirling bands of cream and brown". "Onyx-marble" must be understood as a traditional, but the geologically inaccurate term, since both onyx and marble have geological definitions distinct from even the broadest applicable for alabaster.


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