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Carving
"The fruit of love"

Pacific Salmon Coral Carving on Rock Crystal and Bronze base.

code: 5101

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Designer

CRESCENZO GAGLIONE

Crescenzo Gaglione, like his brother Lucio, looks back to a long family tradition of coral engravings art. Gaglione dedicates his whole life to coral, cameo and turquoise sculpting. He reclaims the mosaic techniques to realize cameos of different shades of colour, thanks to the use and combination of materials such as coral and turquoise.

Materials

PACIFIC CORAL: “CORALLIUM ELATIUS”

According to the legend, the coral was born from the blood of the beheaded Medusa, that coloured and petrified the seaweeds upon which Perseo had laid/ placed her head, turning them into coral. However, the science has another explanation: the coral is the calcareous secretion produced by little octopus communities, with support and protection function. These secretions, blending together, result in colonies.
In jewellery, the most appreciated corals, both for their value and beauty, are those from the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
The coral coming from the Pacific Ocean can be divided into three subcategories: Corallium Elatius, Secundum and Japonicum.
Elatius coral stands out for the size of its branches. It occurs in different shades of colour: from Momo in salmon and peach colour, up to the rarest Angel skin, in light pink. The coral in angel skin, due to the rarity and uniformity of its colour, is the finest and most valued among the coral varieties.

ONYX

According to the legend, onyx has been created when Cupid cut the nails of sleepy Venus and kept them on the floor. Since they were part of a divine creature, her nails were divine too and, for this reason, they became gems; indeed, the Greek onyx means “nail”. It is believed that this black stone cancelled negative thoughts and sharpened the intelligence.

Today, since it is a hard and precious stone, the onyx is used to create jewels.

BRONZE

Bronze is an alloy composed by copper and tin.  The name dates back, indeed, to the Persian birinj ‘copper’, that in medieval Latin becomes brundum. It reaches its highest widespread during prehistory times, so greatly that it characterized an entire era, defined as the Bronze Age precisely for the massive use of this alloy