Topic: Chinese?split weight,

[keith]

3.5 inches high,concave base,the weight has been split across the middle to give the impression of water(I presume)the foliage is quite good I think,is it Chinese?Keith.

[tropdevin]

Hi Keith

The weight is indeed Chinese.  The split is not intentional - it is a crack from manufacture, due to faulty annealing.

Alan

[keith]

It split just in the right place,I think it improves it,ta,Keith.

[SophieB]

I also own a Chinese weight with two annealing cracks/lines. However, the annealing lines seem intentional and controlled as if used to mimic the ripple effect of the water (the cracks are very thin, well within the weight and precisely where they should be to portray moving water).

I bought this weight because I had never seen anything like it before (otherwise it is rather ordinary). I hoped that one day someone would explain it to me (i.e. whether it was faulty or intentional and if intentional how it was done).

So may be there is something in what Keith describes (either that or we both own a faulty weight  )

Has anyone else seen this before?

SophieB

[Lustrousstone]

It's probably coincidence and a result of the way the weight is assembled.