It’s actually a little ox about 3 inches long and 2 inches tall representing the Year of the Ox, my birth year.
I bought it at the Chinese Arts and Crafts Center in Hong Kong after some hesitation – it was not cheap! It is made of a colored glass called lazurite glass. The mineral lazurite in its pure form exhibits intense, deep, azure-blue, violet, light blue, or greenish-blue colors.
I doesn’t look expensive?? Mom will like it.