This carving shows same flowers and leaves sprouting out from a cliff. Some flower buds can also be seen, ready to blossom into full flowers. The whole piece weighs over 10 kg.
This stone carving is unique in the sense that the top part of the stone has some blue colour. This blue stone is known as Lantin, literally means blue nail. The best variety of the blue stone in Qintian is known as Lanxin, literally means blue star. Lanxin stone is crystal-like and the blue hue is that of copper sulphate. Carvings from this stone are very valuable due to the scarcity of Lanxin stone.
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| A Lanxin stone carving |
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