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Lamplight
jelly stone
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| lamplight jelly, another name lighting stone
with yellowish pure and exquisite, soft and gentle, half-transparence
and splendid like the lamp-bright is of elegant material,
which is easy to carve and has been used to countermark since
the early of Ming. The lamplight jelly has been spread out
even all of the world and is in top quality of the Qingtian
stone, for instance, the works of "beyond Shoushan stones"
on the "book tables" magazine (April, 1979) is far
exceeded the value of gold. It is produced from Shankou fengmen,
Danhong and Fangshan baiyang, which also has limited production
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Fengmen
Qing stone
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| Fengmen Qing with the light cyan is like the
browser run in Spring and some of them trended to yellow and
blue,such as lamplight jelly,half-transparence.The seal on it
is easy to begin and play freely, which is a unique collection.
Fengmen Qing is very clear with the pure texture is produced
from Shankou Fengmen which is the name of Fengmen Qing comes.
Fengmen is rich of ore material, but seldom Fengmen Qing stones.
We usually call the stone with pure and exquisite texture, no
jelly and bright material as Fengmen stone which is the classy
material for seal and excellent works. |
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Dragon
egg
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| Dragon egg, another name rock egg, with different
size in purple-brown color and thin eggshell wraps the jelly
stone called vitellus with different color. The eggshell has
soft and hard material, and the soft is very suitable for
carving use. Most of the jelly stone has buff and nattierblue
color with clear and soft material, which is the rare piece
of Qingtian stone. Dragon egg is produced from hillside and
rock of Zhou village. There is no short cut, except explorer
layer by layer, or split the stone for the "dragon egg". |
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Lan'ding
Qing Tian Stone
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| Lan'ding Qing Tian, another name Lanhua Ding
is produced from Shankou area. Lan'ding is mainly composed of
corundum with globularity and elliptoid shape,blue and bice.
It has high specific gravity so that craftsmen are difficult
to start with. However, there are much fine jelly around Lan'ding,which
people said"meat around bone". If you use it skillfully,
the meat which around bone may be your basis of the excellent
crafts. |
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Colorful
Qing Tian stone
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| Colorful Qing Tian, another name colorful
jelly is made up of several colors,among which has the layers
transformation on each color, also, the adjoining layers have
the natural and beautiful interphase. The one with exquisite
texture is carved to stand out the subject of the view and
expresses the artistic conception is a one of the most rare
piece in the Qing Tian stones. It comes from Shoukou area. |
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Zitan
jelly stone
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Zitan jelly which is the chronic name is
not the jelly stone of Red Sandal jelly acturally. The texture
is the red sandal color, exquisite and transparent material
with cystiform and samdwich shape in nattierblue and straw
yellow color. It is the best material of complete and square
style from its appearance to carve on the flowers. It comes
from Shankou area. It is very similar with Zitan flower
and Zitan jelly. However, we can distinguish them by the
quality of material and the tint stone in the middle.
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Black
Qing Tian Stone
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| Black Qing Tian, the black color, bright luster,
and pure and exquisite texture with filling of other colors,
but obvious sidelin e is an excellent material of print and
carving. Craftsmen often make the works unique by the skillful
color use. It is produced from Shankou and Tanggu. |
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Golden
jade jelly stone
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Golden jade jelly, with the natural interphase
of nattierblue and yellow color is produced from Shankou
area. The one with exquisite texture, soft and complete
material is one of the toppest jelly stone in Qingtian stone.
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Hongmu
jelly stone
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| Hongmu jelly,mohogany color,with exquisite texture
and fine polish is produced from Jishan. The one with filling
of pale and straw yellow color is of top jelly stone, extremely
rare and collective. |
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Green
Qing Tian Stone
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| Green Qing Tian with green and bottle green
color, exquisite texture, half-transparence and fragile property
has some yellow and brown color inside which are like cloud
and plum stake speckle, and seldom yellow and white point.
It is produced from Shanpao Village, also called Shanbao Green.
By exploitation in the air open, you can find the pure and
bright color,among which the best is of the stones without
speckle. |
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Tanggu
jelly in yellow and white color
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Tanggu jelly in yellow and white color
is of pure and clear texture, which the yellow is like Tianhuang's;
white is like Fengmen's. The yellow and white jelly stones
often exist indiscerptible with a bit piece and natural
color transition. It comes from Tanggu area.
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Splint
jelly stone
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| Splint jelly,also called splint. Jelly stone
in the middle of common Qingtian stone or fritted tuff is the
clear samdwich. just like the layer biscuit. The splint and
the jelly in the middle probably with several layers has the
different color by the different producing area. The harder
the splint is, the best the jelly in the middle is, which is
the excellent material of Qingtian stone carvings. It comes
from Shankou, Fangshan, Jishan and Tanggu etc. |
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Multilayer-grain
stone
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| Multilayer-grain,
with the clear interphase of different colors, which the thickness
of layers is not the same,and the strong contrast is produced
from Shankou area. This kind of stone with exquisite texture,
strong and complete material is adapted to begin the carving. |
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Lanqing
Tian stone
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| Lanqing Tian, another name Fengmen Lan with
sapphire blue color and exquisite texture. Some of them has
subtil jelly point, high specific gravity, and come from Shankou
area. Lanqing Tian with punctation or sheet shape inside the
tint stone material is called Lanxingqing Tian or Landaiqing
Tian. |
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stone
carvings of almond pip
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| It has ivory and offwhite color, just like
almond pip with exquisite texture, burliness, opacity, soft
sense and easy to carve. It is fully the top seal material.s |
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