Ornate with jewels - diamonds and rubies, sapphires and amethyst, green jade and blue turquoise - it held the treasures of the world.

In bronze, blue, ecru, orange, turquoise, white or black, it costs $1,800 and can be ordered from showrooms around the country.

It was the size of a small hawk, its plumage the richest palette of carmine, turquoise, blue, black and iridescent green.

The hydroid colony, which can range from bright blue turquoise to yellow, resembles tentacles like those of the jellyfish.

He used colors like light and dark blue, beige, ochre, orange, turquoise, and muted yellow to make the planes recognizable from the ground.

Its birthstone is the blue turquoise or zircon, and the recently added tanzanite.

The old Indian Tenorio stood at the table and displayed his arms laden with necklaces, nodules of blue and green turquoise on knotted string.

From South Ulfland came Grand Duke Erwig, with a birth-gift: a magnificent mahogany chest inlaid with red chert and blue turquoise.

King's Manassa turquoise is best known for its brilliant greens and golden matrices, but blue and blue-green turquoise was found amid these deposits as well.

Tucked carefully in the bodice of her chemise was a large, polished turquoise, blue as the sky and glittering with silver striations.