.......Elephant beads..... Elephants are an important cultural icon in Asia. For centuries they have been used as beasts of burden bec...

             the le le These little odd shaped beads ( should I call them beads because they have perforations ?) had me wondering for...

...to hold and behold Here is a treasured necklace, composed of 16 old rock crystal beads and one quartz elephant bead. The crystal  bea...

        To greet Chun jie 2013 I composed this little jade snake picture from my cache of flat jade plaques. The head has a carv...

Here are 2  tiny jade sculptures measuring about 1.5cm and 1.8cm each.   They look like fruits but what fruit is represented by their odd ...

Are these are beads or pebbles.? Their unformed shape resembles little pebbles but they have holes drilled in them so they can be strung u...

This brown fish is, um a     bird ! looks like a fish Picked up among the riff-raff of a flea market in China it is a tantalising p...

The heading for this post sounds like some sensational web blast. But take a look at this bead and you will be struck by the resemblance t...

I had forgotten all about this seal which I had purchased in Phnom  Penh some years back. So glad I rediscovered it in time for the lunar ne...