Yixing: Antique Zisha Bamboo Theme Teapot with Yin Yang and Eight Trigrams 八卦Antique Yixing Zisha Bamboo Theme Teapot with Yin Yang and Eight Trigrams The round cylindrical shaped teapot is made with the bamboo theme. Impressed all around the teapot's body are vertical bamboo stalk lined side by side and held together by a band in the middle. The bamboo theme is repeated in the sprout and handle, as well as the rim of the top knob on the cover, represented as segmented bamboo. Within the bamboo ring of the knob is a yinyang

Five for silver

and the most important would be the spirit chair carried by four attendants

Its neck is encased in silver

and rocks of brown

Seraphinite is made of a variety of Clinochlore and is hydrous magnesium

There are straight fissure lines that are natural to quartz

It looks like it has some age

sometimes both

It is cut in a different way showing the bands in a vertical manner

85 inches high

I may have come across smaller pieces but larger chargers seldom circulate in the open market

This Guanyin here stands out in her pleasing countenance and is better made than most