Snuff Bottle: Small Moss Agate Snuff BottleMoss agate is translucent and is a type of Chalcedony that contains a mossy, dendric branching or fern like pattern. Sometimes the green patterns give an impression of a heavy forested landscape. The pretty moss agate snuff bottle has a good looking flattened round shape and is well hollowed. The rounded body ends in a small raised oval foot. It has a good size opening. The matching cap has a cork stopper and an old spoon. It appears to be one of a

Dating: Post 1970's

His twenty plus years of rule was powerful and the name Tang retains the prestige it still held

This presentation of ritual food offerings is a part of tomb furnishings that would be placed in a burial of the Ming Dynasty CE 1368 – 1644

but it is the chrome yellow that predominates

Please note this item is too large to be fitted into a box has to be shipped by home delivery

The inside paintings on both sides feature a seated lady in a garden seating

The eye has the uncanny resemblance to a real human eye surrounded by concentric circles

Dating: 2000's

There are a few short hairline cracks which are natural occurrences in objects that are over 70 years old

It has facetted sides to accentuate its geometric shape

it became one of my favorite classes at the University of Chicago

Sword makers and metalsmiths were promptly out of work