Large Agate Slab

This Large Agate Slab boasts a stunning natural design with intricate patterns and vibrant colors. Perfect for home decor, it adds an elegant touch to any space. Made from high-quality agate, each slab is one of a kind. Display it as a centerpiece or use it as a unique wall art piece.

Also known as large agate slab horse brain, etc., it is a kind of chalcedony mineral, often a striped block mixed with opal and cryptocrystalline quartz, with a hardness of 6.5-7 degrees, a specific gravity of 2.65, and a fairly colorful color. level. Available in translucent or opaque. The original form of the trigonal crystal system. It is often dense and massive and forms various structures, such as breast, grape, tuberculosis, etc. The common concentric structure. Chalcedony has different colors, usually green, red, yellow, brown, white and other colors. According to the pattern and impurities, it can be divided into onyx, silk agate, moss agate, castle agate, etc. Often used as playthings, ornaments, ornaments or toys. Strings of agate balls are often seen in ancient burials. There are many types of large agate slab, including pictographic agate (natural agate pattern, agate picture stone, pictographic slice, patterned agate, aquatic agate, marine chalcedony, landscape agate, patterned agate, shadow agate, etc.), southern red agate, Warring States red Agate, rock sugar agate, northern red agate, green agate, purple-green agate, salt source agate, silk agate, fire agate, Gobi agate, grape agate, wolf blood agate, Xinjiang Hetian agate seed material, insect agate, etc.

When the ancient Mongolians saw that the color and beautiful patterns of large agate slab were very similar to the horse's brain, they thought it was a stone turned from the horse's brain, so they called it "horse brain" in Sanskrit.

"large agate slab" was written as "horse brain" in the early days, and it was first seen in the book "The Seven Sons of Anapindi" translated by An Shigao of the Later Han Dynasty. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Kumarajiva translated "The Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law", saying: "Horse brain, Brahma cloud restrains Shimajiepo", "The color is like a horse brain, so from that name." Hui Lin, an eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty, explained in "The Sound and Meaning of All Sutras": "Those who are 'Ashi Binding' (Asmar-) are also called 'horses', and those who 'reveal waves' (-garbha) are also brains.