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Realistic, 3.2" Polished Coquina Stone Bear with Fish - Philippines
This is a fun, 3.2" long polished bear sculpted from coquina stone (fossil shell hash) collected in the Philippines. The stone has been meticulously shaped and polished to create this unique piece. A small fish of the same material can be seen in its mouth, as if it was just freshly snatched up from a stream.
It stands up nicely on a flat surface.
It stands up nicely on a flat surface.
This stone started out as a silica-rich mud full of accumulated shell fragments known as a coquina. Coquina is actually the Spanish word for cockleshells or shellfish. Coquinas accumulate in high-energy marine environments such as coastlines where currents and waves result in the abrasion, fracturing, and sorting of the shells that compose them. Over time, these shell fragments fossilized and the silica-rich mud turned into a jasper.
