Genres of Korean Stone Art
- mountain view (horizontal and vertical)
- shaped jade mountains
- shaped rock crystal mountains
- abstract shape
- overhanging shapes
- organic mineral shapes (calcites, pyrites)
- stalctite and stalagmite stelae
- shamanistic shape
- single stone buddhas
- multiple stone buddhas
- astrological year figures (dragon, snake, monkey etc.)
- tree and house shapes
- fossilized fish
- fossilized insects
- stalctite and stalagmite stelae
- enhanced coloured stones
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