Antique Japanese or Chinese Carved Soapstone Gentleman Figure Meiji Period

An impressive and quite rare hand carved soapstone standing Asian figure of a Japanese or Chinese gentleman standing on one foot, carrying a circular disk type object on his back, ending on a square Sopastone carved base on a square polished brass platform. The carving is in colours of browns and dark cream, made in China during the last half of the 19th Century. Location: Dublin City, Ireland. Worldwide Store to door shipping offered by Seller in-house. Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium-rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamo thermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in subduction zones, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx of fluids but without melting. It has been a carving medium for thousands of years especially by Chinese