Dripping with blood-red coral

ACCORDING to residents of the Trapani region in Sicily, the coral to be found there is the reddest in the world. This may be myth but what certainly is not fabrication is the popularity and desirability of objects made from this striking natural material.

The Trapani coral used to make the base of this late 17th/early 18th century silver chalice had been…

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