This Handmade Tibetan Gau Box Red Coral Sterling Silver Pendant is handcrafted by the Tibetan Craftsmen from sterling silver, and red coral.
The size of this tibetan pendant is 39mm*32mm*20mm.
Box inner size: 30mm*22mm.
Coral is known to be used as a gem since prehistoric times.
Has a history of religious meaning and is one of the seven treasures in Buddhist scriptures.
Coral was long thought to be a strong talisman against bleeding, evil spirits, and hurricanes.
Its color ranges from white to red.
It grows in branches that look like underwater trees.
Most coral is found in the Mediterranean Sea or in the Pacific off Japan and Taiwan.
When you say the word coral, most people think of the coral reefs in the South Pacific like the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
However, these coral reefs are formed by a different species than the coral traditionally used in jewelry Corallium rubrum and Corallium japonicum.
Red coral these days is almost always the best collections for people around the world. Turquoise is one of the world's earliest-used gem materials.
Ranked with the jades of the Orient and lapis in the Near East, turquoise has been revered for thousands of years.
In the Southwestern United States, no gemstone has been held in greater esteem.
Diggings at Chaco Canyon and other ancient sites have revealed tens of thousands of pieces of turquoise in various stages of lapidary treatment.
Where ancient leaders were buried, the amount of turquoise present in the grave sites indicates that it was a stone of significance long ago.
Hardly a deposit of turquoise was left undiscovered by the ancient ones.
Today, the gem material's popularity reaches from the Southwestern United States across the entire world.