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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1477132, member: 2844&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie39" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is from Tibet. Beautiful.</p><p>It looks like a very nice &#039;tongba&#039;, a drinking vessel for hot millet beer. Like a cross between a beer mug and a tea mug.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> I am not exactly sure it is a tongba, because the ones I have seen are rather plain and have a hole in the lid for a straw. But it is the same shape and size.</p><p>It has age, but it is not antique imo.</p><p><br /></p><p>The metal could be (low grade) silver, maybe you can have it tested.</p><p>The stones are Tibetan turquoise, and what looks like carnelian. The colours blue and red stand for balance between the male and femal principles, heaven and earth, etc. Much like the Chinese yin and yang.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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