Basking In The Sun
Onias Mupumha

Cobalt Stone

24cm (h)
64cm (w)
8cm (d)

£395

Leaves open wide, soaking up the heat of the sun.

A very elegant and unusual wide, low piece from Onias.

Cobalt stone is the local Zimbabwean name given to this purple and green type of serpentine. It does not, as far as we know, contain any cobalt but it may originally have been found near a cobalt mine. Nowadays, it is mined near Chiweshe, in northern Zimbabwe.