Featured Carved Stone Pendant Help Please

Hi All,
I've been trying to figure out what this pendant is made from. I know zip about different stones so I've been looking on-line and wondering if this could be Jasper with red veins? It is cold and I can't scratch the surface (bottom) with my nail.
any information appreciated
thanks for looking

 

Gee wiz, that's an interesting one

I'm stumped !!

 

Heat cracked and dyed carnelian,trade names... crackeled carnelian,crackeled fire agate,etc.

 

The style of carving looks Chinese.

 

thanks for the replies folks

me too Charlie

thanks Holly, off to look up Carnelian

thanks AJ

a neon green gladiolus I have growing, the colour is fantastic

 

I can't shake the impression that this is molded.

 

I'm confused, if molded, this wouldn't be carnelian then?

 

Is your gemstone tester dead again?

 

I've seen this stone before in Chinese carvings, and do think it is stone rather than molded, but hard to be 100% sure without having it in hand. Might be a kind of carnelian, but there may be a more specific name.

 

It wouldn't be carnelian/cornelian if I'm right about its being molded. But I am far from certain. It's the way it looks in places like the space between the foreleg & the head that bothers me:



The sharper places could be finishing touches applied by hand.

You mention it is cold to the touch. How is the weight? The Goldilocks question: for its size, does the weight seem heavy, light or just right?

To my eye it looks more like pressed amber than anything else. However, if I had it in hand my opinion could be very different.

 

I've never had a tester

 

it weighs 24 grams, wouldn't be heavy to wear around your neck. When I first picked it up, I thought is was glass, very smooth to the touch. Looking closer, I realized it was stone of some sort

 

maybe these photos will help Bronwen I'm guessing they would polish this to round out the edges?

 

I've seen this stone before. No idea what it's meant to resemble or the proper name, but it almost has to be Chinese. Cute little sucker. Run some black cord through his bail hole and wear him.

 

Do you have a UV light? Just curious how Mr. Squirrel would look with different lighting.

 

here you go Bronwen

 

I have no idea what it is and will usually go by Hollyblue on stone ID but I keep thinking about some kind of treated copal.

 

Know this was tricky to photograph. Does it capture what your eye sees? And am I seeing it correctly, that the squirrel does not reflect back the purple light, instead absorbing it, so the color looks the same as in full spectrum light?