| Original Message: 3D carving of shou design |
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Because I have examples of both styles of glass beads with a shou design - the blue glass ones that appear to have been engraved to a standard pattern, such as Anne showed, and the more 3 dimensional ones [such as yours] with the cut "slashes" surrounding the central shou character circle. The latter cutting style seem to be pretty definitely Chinese - have never seen this molded. The Chinese, of course, are known for using lapidary techniques on glass as if it were just another type of stone. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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