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Seeking opinions on 3 shadow agates.

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« on: March 09, 2017, 05:56:05 am »

Hi All,

Apologies for coming into his thread so late. I think you are all under-estimating the skills of the Chinese lapidaries. I think the three bottles posted here are not too old (mid 20th C onwards), but there are plenty of older examples around where a uniformly white/cream band has been used to create a cameo effect. White is the more commonly used type, probably due to the striking contrast. But the cameo "skin" can be any contrasting layer or band within the stone.

In many cases the contrasting band is quite thin, and the carver reduces the area around the cameo to make it stand out and look thicker than it really is. The last photo from Adrian demonstrates this technique well.

Tom
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