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2. Sandakada pahana - Wikipedia

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   Sandakada Pahana, also known as Moonstone, is a unique feature of the architecture of ancient Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is an elaborately carved semi-circular stone slab, usually placed at the bottom of staircases and entrances.

3. Ringstone - Wikipedia

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   The designs vary, but all examples are finely carved, despite their small size. A number of components appear in a variety of arrangements. Typically the innermost zone, which runs down the sloping sides of the hole, has four standing female figures, many are nude "with fully exposed genitalia", bent knees pointing outward, and heels together, with jewelry and elaborate hairstyles, and trees ...

4. Stonesetting - Wikipedia

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   Generally, a prong setting is formed of a number of short, thin strips of metal, called prongs, which are arranged in a shape and size to hold the given stone, and are fixed at the base. Then a burr of the proper size is used to cut what is known as a "bearing", which is a notch that corresponds to the angles of the stone. The burr most often ...

5. Mysterious ancient ‘human face’ rock carvings revealed by ...

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   Receding water levels in the Brazilian Amazon due to historic levels of drought have revealed strange human faces sculpted into stone likely about 2,000 years ago.. Water levels in the Brazilian ...

6. List of Antiques Roadshow episodes - Wikipedia

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   Late 19th century English men's jewellery with carved moonstone face wearing a diamond tiara. £1,500 – Posset pot, 1680, 'tin glazed' English Delftware (riveted), £1,000 – painting of Ladies in a landscape by Spanish artist Francisco Morales, 1879 (trained in Barcelona and Madrid, but achieved success in Paris), value £12,000

7. Hardstone carving - Wikipedia

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   Mughal dagger hilt in jade with gold, rubies, and emeralds.. Hardstone carving, in art history and archaeology, is the artistic carving of semi-precious stones (and sometimes gemstones), such as jade, rock crystal (clear quartz), agate, onyx, jasper, serpentinite, or carnelian, and for objects made in this way.