NOTES: The Shell in the Item's Picture is Used for Background Purposes Only and is Not Included. Item is Much Better Than Pictured and Does Not Reflect the True Beauty of the Brilliant Sparkling Dichroic Glass Colors, Iridescence and Reflections of this Art Piece; Absolutely Gorgeous and Stunning in my...
NOTES: The Shell in the Item's Picture is Used for Background Purposes Only and is Not Included. Item is Much Better Than Pictured and Does Not Reflect the True Beauty of the Brilliant Sparkling Dichroic Glass Colors, Iridescence and Reflections of this Art Piece; Absolutely Gorgeous and Stunning in my Opinion! Brand New, Never Used Hawaiian Replicated Dichroic Glass Sculpture. Design: Hawaiian Seahorse #1; Cutout, Raised Design, Two-Tone Lampworked Dichroic Glass, Hand-Cut, Hand-Shaped, Tapered Rounded Body, Textured Life-like Detailing, Smooth Polished Surface Finish; Measures: This Sculpture Measures 1 3/4" Wide X 1 3/4" Long X 4 11/16" High; Color: Blended 2-Tone Solid Glass with Mixed Royal Blue and Green Dichroic Glass Body; Weight: 3.2 Ounces. Features: In Hawaiian, the Words "Mea punihei i nā mea āiwaiwa" Means "Mystical", "Nani makamae" Means "Exquisite", and "Nani e makahehi 'ia ai" Means "Alluring", All of Which Describe This Exceptional Glass Sculpture Design Exactly! This Absolutely Gorgeous Sculpture is Superbly Crafted with a Smooth, Surface Polished Glass Background. This Labor-Intensive, Cutout Piece of Art is Intricately Lampworked, Hand-Cut and Hand-Shaped by Skillful Glass Artists Into a Traditional Mo`o lio (Hawaiian Seahorse) Design Using Two-Tone Mixed Opaque and Clear Glass and Dichroic Glass (Please See Details Below). This Solid Piece Truly Replicates this Beautiful Form of Sealife and is Crafted with Approximately (16) Separate Sections to Ultimately Create the Overall Seahorse Design. This Highly, Life-like Detailed Seahorse Features a Right-Angled Contoured Head with an Tubular Snout, a Coronet (The Crown-like Spine on the Top of the Head), Rippled Back Trunk Rings (Area Covering the Back Below the Coronet Down to the Back of the Trunk), a Hand-Textured Curved Rippled Keel (Chest Area) to Replicate Bony-Ridged Ring Plates, a Hand-Textured Crimped Dorsal Fin (Back Fin), and a Naturally Curved Prehensile (Grasping) Tail to Enhance the Detailing. The Seahorse's Snout, Coronet, Back Trunk and Dorsal Fin Features are All Created Using Mixed Opaque and Semi-Transluscent Glass Color Pieces Consisting of Blended Metallic Sea Green and Dark Forest Green Spots with a Shamrock Green Overtones to Produce an Overall Two-Tone Appearance. The Seahorse Has a Two Raised, Solid Black Glass Eyes. The Seahorse's Dorsal Fin is Hand-Shaped and Textured with Partially Crimped Perpendicular Fin Lines. The Seahorse is Fixed Onto a Textured Clear Glass Base to Replicate a Rocky Ocean Bottom. Adorning the Right Side of the Seahorse are Four Raised Coral Branches. The Bottom Base Area of the Coral Branches Has Green Glass Infused Into the Clear Glass to Create a Sublte Green Tone Color Radiating From the Coral Branches. The Seahorse's Neck, Main Body and Tail are all Crafted Using a Mix of Reflective, Sparkling Royal Blue and Green Dichroic Glass with Orange, Yellow, Lavender, Navy Blue, Pink and Lime Overtones. The Dichroic Glass Portions are Created with a Three-Layered Sandwich Process. The Uppermost Top Layer Portion is a Clear Glass Coat that Conforms to the Shape of the Body or Piece, The Inner Middle Layer Portion is Created by Using a Sheet/s of Colored Dichroic Glass and the Bottom Layer Portion (Foundation) is Created by Stroking a Heated, Colored Glass Rod Against the Back to Create a Dark-Colored Background, Which Enhances the Reflective-Effects and Appearance of the Dichroic Glass’ Iridescence and Also Produces Overtone Colors that Surround the Main Color of the Dichroic Glass. A Magnificent and Overall Highly Detailed Piece of Workmanship! As Seahorse's are Masters of Camouflage in Nature, The Color Backgrounds and the Dichroic Glass' Iridescence Changes its Tones and Colors When Indoors or Outdoors to Accentuate the Overall Appearance. A Unique, One of a Kind Artistic Creation that Exudes Pride of Ownership! About Seahorses: Seahorses are a genus (Hippocampus) of fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae, which also includes pipefish and leafy sea dragons. There are over 32 species of seahorse, mainly found in the shallow tropical and temperate waters of Hawai`i, Australia, the Caribbean, Brazil and similar warm-water locations throughout the world. They prefer to live in sheltered areas such as sea grass beds, coral reefs, or mangroves. These fish form territories, with males staying in about one square meter of their habitat while females range about one hundred times that area. They bob around in sea grass meadows, mangrove stands, and coral reefs where they are camouflaged by murky brown and gray patterns that blend into the sea grass backgrounds. During social moments or in unusual surroundings, seahorses turn bright colors. Their head is bent, almost at right angles to their body, their trunk is inherently curved and their fin-less tail is prehensile (grasping). They have no scales, few fins, no ribs and a thick external skeleton. A seahorse’s body is covered by bony plates that appear externally as a series of ridges and rings. The body can also be divided into three main sections: head, trunk, and tail. Seahorses are camouflage experts, changing color and growing skin filaments to blend in with their surroundings. Short-term color changes may also occur during courtship displays and daily greetings. Seahorses swim using the propulsive force of a quickly oscillating dorsal fin. They are more adapted to maneuverability than speed and primarily rely on camouflage to avoid detection. With their whimsical charm, seahorses inspire an almost universal reaction of wonder and delight. They are one of the most interesting and unique of all sea creatures. It is named a seahorse because its head resembles the head of a tiny horse. The scientific name is "Hippocampus", which comes from the Greek words meaning "horse" and "sea monster". Seahorses are one of the most magical and enchanting animals in the animal kingdom. They are the stars of fairy tales and legends. The seahorse is believed to cure many ailments in traditional Chinese Medicine. Not only does the seahorse have eyes that rotate 360% independent of the other, but the seahorse is the only animal in the entire animal kingdom in which the male has a true pregnancy! Seahorses reproduce in a unique way. The male of the species gives birth to live babies. The female deposits her eggs in his pouch and the male carries these eggs until they are ready to be born. Seahorses can bear up to 500 babies at one time. The baby seahorses (or ponies) often ride on their father's head or attached to other seahorses. The seahorse was once found in every ocean of the world from 20 feet to 100 feet which is the area most frequented by man. Today the seahorse is facing extinction from over fishing. The seahorse is now an endangered species protected by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). The Seahorse Hawaii Foundation is working to protect these magnificent sea creatures through conservation, education, research and propagation at their Kona Facility located within the Ocean Rider Seahorse Ranch on the Big Island. In heraldry, a seahorse is depicted as a creature with the foreparts of a horse and the hind parts of a fish. For example, the right supporter of the Isle of Wight Arms, the supporters on either side of the crest of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, or the arms of the University of Newcastle, Australia. The seahorse is prominent in the logo of Waterford Crystal and the logotype of illustrator W. W. Denslow. In the Seri culture of northwestern Mexico, the legend is that the seahorse is a person who, to escape his pursuers, fled into the sea, placing his sandals in his waist belt at his back. The National Society for Epilepsy has a seahorse for its mascot named Caesar (after the Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, who was believed to have had epilepsy). The seahorse mascot was chosen because the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is resistant to damage from epileptic seizures, resembles a seahorse in shape. In the Hawaiian culture the seahorse has long be a sign of eternal friendship. Dichroic Glass: Also known as "Dichro" for Short; Dichroic glass is a glass containing multiple micro-layers of metal oxides, with a total thickness of three to five millionths of an inch, which gives the glass dichroic optical properties. Dichroism has two related but distinct meanings in optics. A dichroic material is either one which causes visible light to be split up into distinct beams of different wavelengths (colors), or one in which light rays having different polarizations are absorbed by different amounts. The original meaning of dichroic, from the Greek dikhroos, two-colored, refers to any optical device which can split a beam of light into two beams with differing wavelengths. The second meaning of dichroic refers to a material in which light in different polarization states traveling through it experience a varying absorption. The term came about because of early observations of the effect in crystals such as tourmaline. In these crystals, the strength of the dichroic effect varies strongly with the wavelength of the light, making them appear to have different colors when viewed with light having differing polarizations. END Notes. Retails in Fine Waikiki Boutiques, Mall Galleries and Shops for $180.00. Makes a Great Gift or Treat Yourself to Start or Add to Your Collection of Fine Replicated Hawaiian Glass Sculptures. Made with "aloha". This Item Only Ships Within the 50 United States. Please Allow 1-2 Days Shipping Delay to Ensure This Piece is Securely Protected Before Shipping. 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