Chinese Eye Agate - Lohan Carving

Smooth brown egg with a sleepy white face emerging from the top.

This etched eye agate bead carved with a lohan is from China. Agate is a banded form of chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz, and its layers can be etched or colored to produce eye patterns on beads. Polished oval of dark smoky brown with a rounded form and a small hole at the base. A pale, milky face with closed eyes and a long moustache appears carved in relief at the upper end.

Calm, glossy, and apparently napping inside its shell.