Pink Tourmaline
elbaite — the empress’s stone
Tourmaline is the electric gem — warm it and the crystal genuinely polarizes, which had Dutch traders using it to pull ash from their pipes. The Dowager Empress Cixi loved the pink above all stones; tons of California’s Pala tourmaline sailed to her court, and she rests on a pillow of it still.
“The Empress Dowager rests, at the end, on a pillow of pink tourmaline.”Qing court record · Pala shipments
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