Whitestone Cheese well-known of which is Whitestone Windsor Blue. Other varieties made include Waitaki Camembert, Whitestone Farmhouse, Whitestone Brie, Mt Domet Double Cream Brie, Moeraki Bay Blue, Highland Blue, Totara Tasty, Manuka Feta, and four sheep's milk cheeses (notably Monte Cristo). Three goat's milk cheeses are also made: Parson's Rock, Duntroon and Danseys Pass. Whitestone Cheese Whitestone Cheese is one of the New Zealand South Island's leading cheese companies. The company is based in Oamaru, and takes its name from the limestone known as Oamaru stone which is quarried locally. The cheese is made with no artificial additives and milk from local
Pair of Incense Boxes in the Shape of Mandarin Ducks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the bequest of Benjamin Altman in 1913. Pair of Incense Boxes in the Shape of Mandarin Ducks The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a pair of 17th-century Japanese lacquered wood incense boxes in the shape of mandarin ducks in its collection. The pair of boxes ("Kōgō") were used to hold sticks of incense, used in Zen Buddhist ceremonies. The two boxes are shaped like mandarin ducks ("Aix galericulata"), which were considered symbols of marital bliss and fidelity. Both the ducks and their stand are made from wood covered in gold lacquer.