Chinese Money Bowl, Calcite (orange), 05cm

This pretty little bowl made of orange calcite is ideal as a candle holder or, of course, for collecting "odds and ends".

The Chinese characters on the money bowl loosely translate as: bowl for collecting wealth (wealth bowl).

Diameter of orange calcite tealight holder outside: approx. 5 cm, inside: approx. 3.2 cm

Other names for calcite are calcite/limestone spar, limestone, double spar and sea chalk. The vernacular also calls calcite "Beinbruchstein". Of the various possible spellings, e.g. calcite, calcite, calcite or calcide, the spelling calcite, which is commonly used in the wholesale trade today, has prevailed.