Fossilized Galaxea coral cup
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These perfectly regular white patterns are those of a coral fossil — a madreporarian coral close to the genus GALAXEA. Extracted in the southwest of Madagascar, this rare fossil comes from a land area that was once a seabed before the last glaciation. Collected on land, this fossilized coral is not subject to CITES.
The blocks, buried about one meter deep, show a dark grey crust but conceal a naturally white core. Local artisans extract them and carve them by hand, revealing the fossil structure now transformed into stone.
This decorative fossil bowl was crafted near Morombe by a Vezo craftswoman. Each natural curiosity is unique, a mineral decorative object that carries both geological history and the trace of the hand that shaped it.
A vanished reef, turned into a fossil specimen for the cabinet of curiosities: a rare geological curiosity at the crossroads of science and aesthetics.
The blocks, buried about one meter deep, show a dark grey crust but conceal a naturally white core. Local artisans extract them and carve them by hand, revealing the fossil structure now transformed into stone.
This decorative fossil bowl was crafted near Morombe by a Vezo craftswoman. Each natural curiosity is unique, a mineral decorative object that carries both geological history and the trace of the hand that shaped it.
A vanished reef, turned into a fossil specimen for the cabinet of curiosities: a rare geological curiosity at the crossroads of science and aesthetics.
