Loves, Does Not Love shows a boy pulling the petals from a chamomile flower, one by one, in the old fortune-telling game. It is carved in jasper, lapis lazuli from the Pamirs, jade, cacholong, agate, dolerite and Gazgan marble.
Telling fortunes on a chamomile is an ancient way of finding out about the person one has chosen. In ancient Egypt the flower was identified with the sun god; in ancient Rome it was used in medicine, which gave it the name romana, meaning Roman; in ancient Russia it was used as a healing flower and held to have magical properties. From there comes the game: one petal is torn off with the word loves, the next with the words does not love, and the last petal shows how the other feels about the one telling the fortune.
Materials: jasper, lapis lazuli (Pamir), jade, cacholong, agate, dolerite, Gazgan marble
Dimensions: height 95 mm
Loves, Does Not Love shows a boy pulling the petals from a chamomile flower, one by one, in the old fortune-telling game. It is carved in jasper, lapis lazuli from the Pamirs, jade, cacholong, agate, dolerite and Gazgan marble.
Telling fortunes on a chamomile is an ancient way of finding out about the person one has chosen. In ancient Egypt the flower was identified with the sun god; in ancient Rome it was used in medicine, which gave it the name romana, meaning Roman; in ancient Russia it was used as a healing flower and held to have magical properties. From there comes the game: one petal is torn off with the word loves, the next with the words does not love, and the last petal shows how the other feels about the one telling the fortune.
Materials: jasper, lapis lazuli (Pamir), jade, cacholong, agate, dolerite, Gazgan marble
Dimensions: height 95 mm
