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I am a bit puzzled by the description. What do you mean by "green, not blue"? I can see the rubies and the pearls, but are the blue stones in fact emeralds - is that what you mean?
yes blue stones are emerald green actually.. odd
Linda, - There is a real oddity here: something that cannot actually be right. On the photos, your colours are true to nature for the gold, the rubies, and the pearls. Hence the colour blue of the other stones must indeed be blue as well. There would not be a profound change in colour form a sharp green into a very marked blue on any photographic grounds. However, no such thing as a true, natural "blue" emerald exists. So if the stones here are indeed blue - as appears to be the case, from the photo - they cannot be emeralds, attractive though they are. As the photo looks so natural for the other colours, I would assume - but you have presumably seen the actual piece! - that the stones are, in fact, blue - not green, and are not emeralds (I am not suggesting that they ought to be, either). If the stones are in fact green in colour in real life, then you would need to be able to account for their showing up as blue here. From where I sit, it looks as though the stones are a very good colour blue, but something other than emeralds. Another possibility would be that the colour is due to foil behind the stones, though that would not turn natural emeralds - which are by definition green - into something so blue! I add, incidentally, that to me the blue looks very good in its context, whichever way it was arrived at. As you say they are "green actually", I wonder how, technically, they could have become so in a photo where all other colours look "right"?
I have the piece and I'm not crazy,, it is green in person. I took this photo this morning. Colors are all same except green is the stone color. It photographed same from the original photo also that I purchased it from.
I never suggested you were crazy, Linda! But it is a remarkable thing that what you clearly and correctly perceive as "green" - the colour the stones should indeed be, as emeralds - appears in the image as quite definitely blue. There must be some photographic explanation for this which I can't fathom as I don't know enough. Perhaps someone more technical can explain it! It really is most interesting, as it shows how seriously a photograph can mislead. In this instance I think I can confidently assume that the colour will widely be seen to be blue, so anyone trying to judge what the piece is like then has to IMAGINE that it will be green, and you were right to insert an addition by way of warning!
a wonderful item, absolutely gorgeous. About the colour - it is a fact that real emeralds are difficult to photograph, mostly their colour does not come out, which is very disappointing. I do not know why this is so, but it usually turns out a dull ugly green. Even in catalogues of precious stones made highly professional, it often shows a dull green, which does not match the natural colour. However this type of blue coming out instead of the green I have never seen before. It must have its cause in the camera, the light and other similar factors. But in general, emeralds colour is very difficult to catch by cameras and often the colours turn out badly (but not blue).
It is just as you say, Eva. Emeralds would be awkward to get "right", depending on circumstances, for a photo. So you could imagine e.g. a dull ugly green. But to get a very clear - unambiguous - blue seems really quite bizarre and hard to explain. There must be some technical reason that would explain it, and I rather hope that the cause can be identified. None of us would like a quite strong green such as that of emeralds to be turned into blue, and it would be impossible, I think, to turn the colour into a proper emerald one with photoshopping, in a case like this, unless you are a very deft hand (some would no doubt know how to do it). It is theoretically worrying, for if it can happen to Linda, any of us could also have a strange colour inflicted on us! Anyway, we all know what emeralds look like, so just have to use our imagination to "switch off" the blue and imagine in its place the green of emeralds ...
u get it from Nepalese female Living Buddha's neck?lol ,what a treasure
Yes I sold this to a museum in the Gulf last year.
woow,they r so lucky to keep this,thax for ur reply
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