A fine agate slice with custom-made metal stand, Brazilian, 37cm wide, 38cm high, 43.5cm high with stand Agates are found as kidney-shaped nodules in volcanic rocks where the quartz has crystallised out of a solution. The stone was given its name, by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shoreline of the river Achates in present-day Sicily at some time between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
A fine agate slice with custom-made metal stand, Brazilian, 37cm wide, 38cm high, 43.5cm high with stand Agates are found as kidney-shaped nodules in volcanic rocks where the quartz has crystallised out of a solution. The stone was given its name, by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shoreline of the river Achates in present-day Sicily at some time between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
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