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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;georgeingraham, post: 2361080, member: 6261&quot;]These are indeed glass.. They were intentionally made to imitate various types of stone.. In this case it was made to imitate shadow agate.. It was a very common practice in China..</p><p><br /></p><p>This does not make them undesirable or less collectable.. Some of these kind of glass imitating stone bottles can be more desirable than the real stone bottles.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was considered a tribute to the skill of a glass blower or glassmith the closer they could imitate to various stones like agates, jade, aventurine, realgar and others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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