EIGHT VERY RARE ANTIQUE CHINESE NATURAL AMBER GOLDEN CHICADA CARVINGS.The eight beautiful carvings in different shades of amber ranging from butterscotch to honey. They all float in salt water and glow with the UV light. One of them has many interesting inclusions and some don’t have any. Amber carvings of cicada are very rare. In ancient China, when someone died, Cicada figurines were placed in their graves with them, mostly of jade and rarely of other stones. This practice was believed to make the dead happy and allow them to live a beautiful afterlife. Because it has such a long-life span, the Cicada is a symbol of long-life and even immortality. The longest is 30 mm, 3 cm long. The smallest is 2.5 cm, 25 mm long. Provenance: private Florida collection.

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