Friday, April 6, 2012

Our April 10th auction features the largest collection of Neolithic Chinese Jades to come on the market in many years. These works are thousands of years old and were usually animal figures which were thought to bring luck to those who wore them. Birds, Monkeys, Leopards, Cats, Frogs, Snails and other imagery is represented in the works being offered on Tue. April 10th.
Bidding at liveauctioneers.com and at our site www.rareart.com.
Also a late addition, lot 279, BRAHIN, a slice of a metorite high in concentration of Olivine and a bright shiny nickle-iron composition that resembles chrome along with other minerals,

Museum style label reads: "Brahin, Gomel Region, Byelarus, Found 1810, Stoney-Iron Pallesite (PAL)". Meteorites were found in a zone about 15 km long and 3 km wide crossed by the Dnieper River. Brahin is a Main Group pallasite, with angular shaped olivine embedded in an iron-nickel matrix. Olivine crystals represent about 37 of the weight of the meteorite. Pallasites are not commons, they compose only 1.8 % of all known meteorites. It has been proposed that pallasites represents the interface between the stone mantle and the metal core of differentiated asteroids.(source: Wikipedia)