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Agate Snuff

June 28th, 2008

Angie

Agate Snuff

Chinese Porcelains, Jades, Quartz, Crystal and Agate, Snuff Bottles, Antique Rugs, Books on Oriental Art: Collection of Henri Bar, Late of Shanghai, New York, November 5-6. 1948

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Agate Masterpieces of the Qing Dynasty: A Collection of Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Ted Adameck and Dennis Marlow [Ching]

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A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles the Mary and George Bloch Collection Volume 2 Part 1 Quartz

$265.00

Most profound compiled snuff bottle book, publishedA limited edition of 1000 copy, this book is numbered 981. This is Vol.2, Part 1 only. Nighty four snuff bottles, made of quartz, crystal, agate and chalcedony, were displayed detailly and discribbed fully. It is a must-have reference for serious collectors and dealers!…

About agate type of the following characteristics

Agate is a colloidal mineral, in mineralogy, it is chalcedony class. Since ancient times, agate was welcomed on the ancient “seven treasures” is one of Agate. China jewelry supplier Agate as lines with beautiful ornaments used by people since ancient times, unearthed jade, agate ball clusters common to multi-pendant.

Agate type:

In fact, colorful agate and variety, but red is the main color of agate. Because the natural red agate less, and because color layer is not deep, it is mostly agate in red-hot red agate. Its red with red, purple, dark red, brown red, sauce, red, yellow and red. In addition, the color of said Jin Jin Hongyan such as red agate, red and coherent is called Jinhua agate agate or red flowers. To jade products, in order to block much on making gemstone wholesaler Qian Shi, and to color the United States better.

Blue Agate: light blue, elegant colors, some of the better deep blue, much like sapphire. Multi-output nodule, often wrapping phenomenon. The past, mainly for grinding jewelry and snuff bottles, large blocks of good material is jade. Blue agate blue agate with different egg, egg white agate is agate, fire becomes white, dark blue is not blue, blue agate through the fire does not fade, the value of expensive. Artificially colored blue agate has been popular in the market for many years, is dyed with cobalt dye.

Green Agate: rare in nature, mostly artificial dye is blue with white agate or onyx egg coloring, coloring agent is chromium. Agate is dyed green as emerald green high, but the identification easier, it can not help but flash a little green into blue, is the proof, since it seems Jade, were well received.

Purple Agate: Purple grape as well. This agate rough texture, transparency is slightly lower, because of color, and can make wholesale gemstone , jade is also a good chunk of the material.
Sardonyx: ribbons of various colors to form a winding white agate, white ribbons as thin as a result of oil silk, so called sardonyx. Some red and white, some blue and white, some black and white, or wide, such as band, or as fine as silk, very beautiful, ancient agate cut child. Sardonyx jade is often used variety.

Weed Agate: Also known as moss agate is agate containing opaque color quality varieties. Color variety, the most common green, thin in the light, like a needle-like grass cloth in which it said weed agate, bright colors can be used for jade carving.

Water gall Agate: Agate is the center of the different characteristics, there are solid, there are careless, are hollow without water, there is water in the hollow. Center of water called the water tank agate agate is agate in the rare species, gemstone supplier is rare in ancient treasures. Agate to bold water tank water mostly wonderful, the higher the better transparency.

White Agate: very little use in the crafts, most of the instruments used to instrument. However, since the future with artificial coloring, its importance is begun again.