Verde-antique, a beautiful stone of a dark-green colour, with patches of white, and sometimes also black and red. It is a mixture of serpentine with limestone dolomite or magnesite, and was much prized by the ancient Romans, and is still in great favour in Italy. Oriental verde-antique is a green porphyry having much the same structure and texture as rosso antico (see PORPHYRY).
Verde-antique
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 457
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