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Quartz crystallizes in the rhombohedral system, generally as six-sided prisms usually terminated at each end by six-sided pyramids. Among the crystalline varieties of quartz are rock crystal, amethyst, smoky quartz, rose -colored quartz, and milky quartz. The mineral is colorless when pure, but ranges through various shades of yellow, red, brown, blue, and green to black when impure.
Of the colored varieties of crystalline quartz, amethyst is clear purple or bluish-violet, and is popular as a gem. rose -colored quartz, which always occurs massive, is rose -colored red or pink.The potters in this period created the porcelains now known by their French names of famille noire, famille verte, and the famille rose -colored, these names being derived from their background colors. The famille noire is a rare black porcelain decorated with gold or painted with brilliant enamel colors. Famille verte designates a porcelain of rich green background with applied colored Decoration in transparent enamel. Famille rose -colored is a precious porcelain with a background of a beautiful rose -colored color, made from gold, and upon which enamelled colors are painted. Sometimes the rose -colored shades were applied on a fine white porcelain. The Chinese perfected beautiful purple and yellpw glazes, but these are extremely rare. The yellow or famille jaune was used mainly to adorn imperial palaces.
Ever since the Middle Ages the pope has, on Laetare Sunday, blessed a golden rose -colored which he bestows on some beneficiary. Some Italian writers have declared that the term sub rosa is derived from the fact of consecrated rose -coloreds being placed over the confessionals at Rome to denote secrecy, the rose -colored being a symbol of silence. In legend, Saint Dorothea, who suffered martyrdom under Fabricius, made a convert of Theophilus by sending him some rose -coloreds from paradise. The rose -colored is an attribute of Saints Casilda, Elizabeth of Portugal, rose -colored of Lirna, rose -colored of Viterbo, Rosalia, and others.
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