Dyed agate companion-card front. Colour, with credit. A blue colour-treated agate-like form within multicoloured bands. Interpretive artwork, not a photograph of stock.

Dyed agate companion-card back with material facts, distinct historical examples, an everyday invitation, care guidance and source credits. The same English text is supplied below.

Minerals & stone

Dyed Agate Form — Color-Treated Stone

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Color, intentionally amplified.

These agate forms bring saturated blue or pink color to the collection while retaining the banded patterns that make agate compelling up close. Choose them for a vivid accent rather than an untreated-color specimen.

Dyed agate. The color has been enhanced by treatment and is not represented as natural. Shape, banding and shade vary. Avoid soaking, harsh cleaners and prolonged direct sunlight.

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Material, history & care

Colour, with credit.

Explore the companion card in a readable format. The artwork is interpretive; historical examples retain their individual sources. These notes do not promise therapeutic effects.

Read the companion story, invitation & care

G BENINCASA ESTÉTICA

LOOK AGAIN. THERE IS LIFE HERE.

DYED AGATE

Natural bands. Chosen colour.

G Benincasa Estética brings material, memory and making into view, with credit for the people behind the work and care for what comes next.

TWO KINDS OF MAKING

Agate is banded chalcedony: quartz crystals too small to see unaided. This stock is described as dyed. Natural banding and added colour are different parts of its story; dye chemistry and any coating remain unverified. Both nature and intervention can be named.

A PATTERN TRAVELS

The Met’s ribbed bowl fragment from Egypt, 100 BCE-100 CE, has an agate pattern but is polychrome glass (26.7.1246). A maker translated stone’s appearance into another material. In 19th-century Idar-Oberstein, cutters imported agate from Brazil as local supplies diminished: skilled hands and routes of supply belong in the account.

COLOUR, WITH CREDIT

Trace a band, not just a hue. Choose a colour you would add to something you make. Tell someone what came from the material and what came from you. Neither needs to masquerade as the other.

CARE CONTINUES

Use a soft dry cloth. Avoid heat, solvents and soaking while dyes and coatings are unknown. This decorative stone is not for food or drinking-water preparations.

GIA: chalcedony and craft The Met 26.7.1246 GIA: gem treatments Explore the House: gbenincasa.com

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Digital companion-card previews. Qualified language review and physical production proof remain pending. Any pictured specimens are representative examples, not a guarantee of an exact piece or available stock.