CHINA carved crystal ring circa 500-1900 AD?
$35.00
CHINA, unknown period, ring, circa 500-1900 AD?, triangular cross section, semi-transparent crystal, 33mm outer diameter, 19mm inner diameter, natural flaw, some iron staining, bits of crust, F
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They were doing fine working on stone this hard back in the early Zhou dynasty, but of course they kept making versions of the old things in the old ways deep into the 19th century. The flaw in this piece to me says nothing one way or another about how old it is.
China is like the world: it has everything in it. The current evidence shows that there were people “everywhere” by about 12,000 years ago. In China they started writing stuff down about 5000 years ago, roughly the same time as Egypt and Sumer. The Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations are gone, but China is still here.
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
