Blue "gemstones" surrounded in green settings. Surrounded by silver and bronze, with stripes in fluorescent vermilion, blue, apple green, and red.
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A ring of green and turquoise---with woodland sunshine coming through.
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Victorian paperweights---a luminous pale aqua flower on a darker teal background backed in black silk, framed in old gold and with a border of flowers.
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Gunmetal grey metal, ornamented with silver (with intimations of blue and rose). Silver handles, a silver base, and a silver top. The corners are ornamented with ornate fan-shaped metallic decorations.
An auspicious hexagram, related to the notion of feeding the soul or intellect (in case you think they are distinct) of those of superior capability, provided they handle it properly.
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This one's meant to look like a drawing. A metallic bronze tinted star with a gold center embedded in a blue and gold bauble. The star is decorated with bits of blue " cloisonne." It is really more of a Christmas image that didn't get posted, but it could do for other purposes as well.
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Presumably you can tell which one is which. A pretty image in ceramic, glass, and gold: a rim of rose, violet, royal blue, cobalt, gold and gold surrounding a glass center, blue with a black octagonal "iris" surrounded by a gold rim. "Approach" is off center, revealing "corridors" in gold, royal blue and black, and a background of violet and purple stripes. "Contemplation: is centered, surrounded by a design in the same pattern as the rim of the wheel.

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An experiment with a glass mosaic effect. I think it works! A tile decorated with circles. Each circle is filled with flowers surrounding a circle of green and white leaves. . Colors are rose, violet, green, yellow, blue grey, and old rose. It really does have an antique appearance.
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A fiber-optic top, with a neon red center broken by loops of neon blue light. The rim is gold; there is a four-pointed star in the center. The background is in primary colors: blue, yellow, and red. Hippie magic!
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Blue and gold "bamboo" with central cleft in white, on a solid black background. It reminded me immediately of the K'un Hexagram.
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A bronze-rimmed golden disk or wheel with varying levels or layers. The central
image is an 11-petaled flower surrounded by small pale green "leaves."
The colors are gold and bronze with accents in jade and apple green.
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