{"product_id":"guohua-picture-stones-large-landscape-150x250mm-approx-800gm407","title":"Guohua Picture Stone - Large Landscape - Natural Chinese Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003eHold it up to the light and you will see why they are called picture stones. Manganese has grown through the limestone in fine black branches, and what comes out looks like a winter treeline in a heavy morning fog — except nobody drew it. Geologists call the branching dendrites; they form as mineral-rich water seeps along hairline cracks and crystallises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the big landscape cut, so the branching has room to run right across the face. It wants a shelf at eye height, or a desk where you will actually look at it — somewhere the light moves during the day, because the pattern reads differently in morning light than under a lamp. Most people assume it is an ink painting until they pick it up and feel the weight of the rock, around 800g of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe patterning is natural manganese — not painted and not carved — which is why no two stones are alike and why yours will not match the photograph exactly. A dry cloth is all the cleaning it ever needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFine-grained limestone rich in iron oxide, from Guangxi province in China. 24.5 x 4 x 15cm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harmony Elements","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54394556875089,"sku":"picst-04","price":73.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/5208\/4305\/files\/h01.png?v=1790032219","url":"https:\/\/harmonyelements.co.uk\/products\/guohua-picture-stones-large-landscape-150x250mm-approx-800gm407","provider":"Harmony Elements","version":"1.0","type":"link"}