Chinese Hardstone Calligraphy Set with Buddha Figures

• Hardstone - Hardstone is not a scientific name for a particular gemstone, but a word used to describe any one or more semi-precious stones used in jewellery and decorative arts, and can include jade, agate, onyx, rock crystal, amber, jet and carnelian. Softer stones and minerals such as soapstone, and alabaster and hard stones used in building such as marble or granite are generally excluded.

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• Chinese scholar's desk accessories - Chinese scholar's ink block, ink stones and ink cakes 173
• Chinese silver - bowls and baskets 567
• Oriental deities, sandstone, schist and other stone - Buddha 124
• Oriental deities, wooden - Buddha 484