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Fine Jade Jewelry, a Wonderful Work in the Art Garden
Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) asked:
Jade, known as the “king of emerald” with its fresh & beautiful appearance and transparent texture. Featured with its gentle, crystal, modest and fine characters, people often use jade as a symbol of happy, reunion, harmony and beauty.
The name of “Jade” has a very interesting origin: In general, stones in color of wine, maroon, ochre are called “emerald”, while in color of pea green and deep-green called “jade”. However, there has an another parlance: Legend has it that Fei is a birdie with red plumes, green jade is birdie with green feathers, so the merger of the two words refers specifically to a kind birdie who has cyan and brown feathers. As be assimilated as lovely and cute birdies, the beauty of jade is beyond of common speaking.
Not noly admired as its amorous but smooth color, and bright but crystal luster, jade also been endowed with a gracious noble character. As an ancient saying goes: “The gentleman in the Derby-yu.” If you wearing a crystal green but has a solid inherence jade jewelry, your gentlemanly style will open out naturally.
Perhaps that is why people are inclined to carve and chisel their favorited jade aborativelly, so as to present its delicate mettle and florid brilliance. In this way, several pieces of jade art were born. As a wondenful work of Arts Academy, she emits limpid snd fleckless flavor, she display you a world detached from our daily life, and make all restless hearts regained quietness. Her pure, transparent and smart characters make people enjoyful, Furthermore, the auspicious patterns carved in her body indicate the luck and happiness yet!
* Part of the above jade jewelry pictures come from: http://www.made-in-china.com/products-search/hot-china-products/Jade.html
Jade, known as the “king of emerald” with its fresh & beautiful appearance and transparent texture. Featured with its gentle, crystal, modest and fine characters, people often use jade as a symbol of happy, reunion, harmony and beauty.
The name of “Jade” has a very interesting origin: In general, stones in color of wine, maroon, ochre are called “emerald”, while in color of pea green and deep-green called “jade”. However, there has an another parlance: Legend has it that Fei is a birdie with red plumes, green jade is birdie with green feathers, so the merger of the two words refers specifically to a kind birdie who has cyan and brown feathers. As be assimilated as lovely and cute birdies, the beauty of jade is beyond of common speaking.
Not noly admired as its amorous but smooth color, and bright but crystal luster, jade also been endowed with a gracious noble character. As an ancient saying goes: “The gentleman in the Derby-yu.” If you wearing a crystal green but has a solid inherence jade jewelry, your gentlemanly style will open out naturally.
Perhaps that is why people are inclined to carve and chisel their favorited jade aborativelly, so as to present its delicate mettle and florid brilliance. In this way, several pieces of jade art were born. As a wondenful work of Arts Academy, she emits limpid snd fleckless flavor, she display you a world detached from our daily life, and make all restless hearts regained quietness. Her pure, transparent and smart characters make people enjoyful, Furthermore, the auspicious patterns carved in her body indicate the luck and happiness yet!
* Part of the above jade jewelry pictures come from: http://www.made-in-china.com/products-search/hot-china-products/Jade.html
The Jade Comes Into Fashion
sharon0610 asked:
It is said that in the early 13th century, a Yunan salt merchant carried a stone from Myanmar. The green lucent stone conquered Chinese people who love jade instantly. This stone is the jade, because it has beautiful color, rare production, vitreous luster, moisture texture, more toughness and hardness, it was called “jadeite”, also known as the “king of jade”.
The origin of most jade is in the undeveloped mountainous areas, although there can not see ghosts and demons, wolves and tigers ,when deep in the mountains, often can not see the sunshine, in the boundless forest, only the path which the jade seeker went pass; The fog dew river, the billowing muddy stream, on the summer day in the thunderstorm weather, soaks raise on the water surface everywhere, the smoke rise continuously, when the smoke rise three feet high, it doesn’t disperse, the human in boat can’t see the five fingers, as if entering a five miles fog. Except the malaria smoke, mosquito and python, the environment is very bad, in addition, the tool is primitive, the dry season is very short, the commodity lacks, so the jade mining is very difficult.
Until the 18th century, with the development of the science and technology, the jade only then entered the Chinese Yunnan massively. Although the jade from introduction to application was only 300~400 years, because the people who love jade entrusted jade with mysterious cultural connotation, its short and splendid history made other jades envy sufficiently, and with other jades constituted the Chinese nation continuity of jade culture. The Ming Dynasty, the Burmese jade appeared in our country; Qing Dynasty, because affection of nobility (especially the Qing Dynasty emperor Qianlong canonized and empress dowager Cixi hobby love), it was called ” the imperial jade “.
From then on the jade price increased greatly, became the best quality goods in the jadeite. The jade linked closely with people’s life, in people’s mind, it is not only a beautiful stone, but also has the mystical belief and attaches the request. Both the ancient and the modern people like jade, happy about jade, playing jade, “the gentleman for no reason, the jade does not leave the body”. Presently the jade is the most popular with Chinese and South Korean, wearing jade and loving jade becomes one kind of modern fashion.
It is said that in the early 13th century, a Yunan salt merchant carried a stone from Myanmar. The green lucent stone conquered Chinese people who love jade instantly. This stone is the jade, because it has beautiful color, rare production, vitreous luster, moisture texture, more toughness and hardness, it was called “jadeite”, also known as the “king of jade”.
The origin of most jade is in the undeveloped mountainous areas, although there can not see ghosts and demons, wolves and tigers ,when deep in the mountains, often can not see the sunshine, in the boundless forest, only the path which the jade seeker went pass; The fog dew river, the billowing muddy stream, on the summer day in the thunderstorm weather, soaks raise on the water surface everywhere, the smoke rise continuously, when the smoke rise three feet high, it doesn’t disperse, the human in boat can’t see the five fingers, as if entering a five miles fog. Except the malaria smoke, mosquito and python, the environment is very bad, in addition, the tool is primitive, the dry season is very short, the commodity lacks, so the jade mining is very difficult.
Until the 18th century, with the development of the science and technology, the jade only then entered the Chinese Yunnan massively. Although the jade from introduction to application was only 300~400 years, because the people who love jade entrusted jade with mysterious cultural connotation, its short and splendid history made other jades envy sufficiently, and with other jades constituted the Chinese nation continuity of jade culture. The Ming Dynasty, the Burmese jade appeared in our country; Qing Dynasty, because affection of nobility (especially the Qing Dynasty emperor Qianlong canonized and empress dowager Cixi hobby love), it was called ” the imperial jade “.
From then on the jade price increased greatly, became the best quality goods in the jadeite. The jade linked closely with people’s life, in people’s mind, it is not only a beautiful stone, but also has the mystical belief and attaches the request. Both the ancient and the modern people like jade, happy about jade, playing jade, “the gentleman for no reason, the jade does not leave the body”. Presently the jade is the most popular with Chinese and South Korean, wearing jade and loving jade becomes one kind of modern fashion.
Fascinated Jade Jewelry — the ‘oriental Green Gem’ in Eastern Culture
Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) asked:
With delicate and lubricating texture and limpid luster and clear sheens, jade are generally used as symbols of power, status, wealth and theocracy.
When you wear a jade jewelry, as long as you cherishes the true, the good and the beautiful things, the jewels adhered to your skin will understand your the sincerity and truth, I believe that good fortune, good health, happiness, welfare will always be around you. Emerald is one kind of jades, compared with brilliant and flashing diamonds, Chinese people have given more enthusiasms on the fine, sleek and colorful emeralds.
Jade, known as the “king of emerald” for its fresh & beautiful appearance and transparent texture, and featured with its gentle, crystal, modest and fine characters, people often use jade as a symbol of happy, reunion, harmony and beauty.
Jade is an extremely durable mineral, Jade in China is varied and can be divided into two categories: hard and soft jade. Good materials provide a strong basis for jade jewelry carving, but the value of a jade object depends on the skills and reputation of the craftsman, date of carving, peculiar modeling and the owner’s status. Certainly, different people will have various views on the value of the same jade object. It is difficult to have a unanimous standard.
The patterns of China’s jade jewelry have rich connotations, revealing strong, auspicious colors. The name of “Jade” has a very interesting origin: In general, stones in color of wine, maroon or ochre are called “emerald”, while in color of pea green and deep-green called “jade”. However, there has an another parlance: Legend has it that “Fei” is a birdie with red plumes, green jade is birdie with green feathers, so the merger of the two words refers specifically to a kind birdie who has cyan and brown feathers. As be assimilated as lovely and cute birdies, the beauty of jade is beyond of common speaking.
Not noly admired as its amorous but smooth color, bright but crystal luster, jade also been endowed with gracious noble characters. As an ancient saying goes: “The gentleman in the Derby-yu” If you wearing a clear green but solid quality jade jewelry, your gentlemanly style will open out naturally. Perhaps that is why people are inclined to carve and chisel their favorite jades aboratively, so as to present its delicate mettle and florid brilliance. In this way, One by one pieces of jade art were born.
As a wonderful work of Arts Academy, she emits limpid and fleckless flavor, she display you a world detached from our daily life, and make all restless hearts regained quietness. Her pure, transparent and smart characters make people enjoyed. Furthermore, the auspicious patterns carved in her body indicate the luck and happiness yet!
For thousands of years’ immersion with traditional oriental culture, its exquisite carving crafts, smooth and gentle lines and attractive changes, all reveals its refined beauty and elegant and royal temperaments, which charming much.
With delicate and lubricating texture and limpid luster and clear sheens, jade are generally used as symbols of power, status, wealth and theocracy.
When you wear a jade jewelry, as long as you cherishes the true, the good and the beautiful things, the jewels adhered to your skin will understand your the sincerity and truth, I believe that good fortune, good health, happiness, welfare will always be around you. Emerald is one kind of jades, compared with brilliant and flashing diamonds, Chinese people have given more enthusiasms on the fine, sleek and colorful emeralds.
Jade, known as the “king of emerald” for its fresh & beautiful appearance and transparent texture, and featured with its gentle, crystal, modest and fine characters, people often use jade as a symbol of happy, reunion, harmony and beauty.
Jade is an extremely durable mineral, Jade in China is varied and can be divided into two categories: hard and soft jade. Good materials provide a strong basis for jade jewelry carving, but the value of a jade object depends on the skills and reputation of the craftsman, date of carving, peculiar modeling and the owner’s status. Certainly, different people will have various views on the value of the same jade object. It is difficult to have a unanimous standard.
The patterns of China’s jade jewelry have rich connotations, revealing strong, auspicious colors. The name of “Jade” has a very interesting origin: In general, stones in color of wine, maroon or ochre are called “emerald”, while in color of pea green and deep-green called “jade”. However, there has an another parlance: Legend has it that “Fei” is a birdie with red plumes, green jade is birdie with green feathers, so the merger of the two words refers specifically to a kind birdie who has cyan and brown feathers. As be assimilated as lovely and cute birdies, the beauty of jade is beyond of common speaking.
Not noly admired as its amorous but smooth color, bright but crystal luster, jade also been endowed with gracious noble characters. As an ancient saying goes: “The gentleman in the Derby-yu” If you wearing a clear green but solid quality jade jewelry, your gentlemanly style will open out naturally. Perhaps that is why people are inclined to carve and chisel their favorite jades aboratively, so as to present its delicate mettle and florid brilliance. In this way, One by one pieces of jade art were born.
As a wonderful work of Arts Academy, she emits limpid and fleckless flavor, she display you a world detached from our daily life, and make all restless hearts regained quietness. Her pure, transparent and smart characters make people enjoyed. Furthermore, the auspicious patterns carved in her body indicate the luck and happiness yet!
For thousands of years’ immersion with traditional oriental culture, its exquisite carving crafts, smooth and gentle lines and attractive changes, all reveals its refined beauty and elegant and royal temperaments, which charming much.
How to Chhose a Grade "a" Jade?
JsWhite asked:
From time immemorial, jade has been closely associated with the Chinese culture.
To the Chinese people, it has the power to protect body and spirit for both the living and the deceased; they also treat it as talisman. In the West, jade is sought after for its elegance, mystique and romance.
Jade can be classified into two different types, nephrite and jadeite. They are two totally different minerals. Colours of nephrite include translucent white, yellow, green, black and the colour is always evenly distributed. Colours of jadeite include white, purple, yellow, green and others; evenness of colours varies with different textures.
Most of the jades yielded in China are nephrite. Among highly treasured pieces of nephrite are some described as “mutton fat”. As the description implies, these are pieces creamy white in colour and uniformly translucent. The majority of fine-carved jade artifacts are made of nephrite.
Jadeite is mainly produced in Burma.Since it is more prominent than nephrite in different aspects, such as texture, colour and price, it is used almost exclusively in jewellery setting, which also lead to a large demand in the market, so we will confine our discussion to jadeite.
Jadeite is also known as fei tsui. The criteria we employ for its appreciation are : colour, transparency, clarity, cutting and flaws.
COLOUR
Colour is of paramount importance. We examine the colour of fei tsui according to the following criteria:
1.Purity
Purity refers to the proportion of the prime and the secondary colours. Let’s take green fei tsui as example, the most desirable is pure green; in descending order of desirability are green tinted with yellow, blue and grey.
2.Intensity
The more saturated the green the better the jade. However, an overdone intensity is of only middling quality.
3.Vividness
The colour should be vibrant and lively. The presence of grey and black makes the green dull without altering its tint.
4.Evenness
The more even the colour, the more desirable the jade and the higher the value.
TRANSPARENCY
Transparency of fei tsui affects the refraction of light and its beauty. When light enters a transparent fei tsui with fine texture, it sparkles; if light enters an opaque fei tsui with coarse texture, it refracts dull light to the eye that reduces attractiveness.
CLARITY
Clarity refers to inclusions, which cohered with jade during the formation process, mainly in black and white. In general, white inclusions are less distracting than black ones and, of course, the less visible the inclusion the better.
CUTTING
Fei tsui is usually worked into two categories: plain polished shapes such as cabochon and carved designs. Plain polished shapes require higher grade material without flaws, and with good proportion, symmetry as well as appropriate thickness. For example, a well-cut cabochon should be neither too thick nor too thin in relation to the area of its top surface. Its “bulge” should be centered, prominent but not exaggerated.
Carved designs are often used to eliminate or minimize the effect of flaws and cracks. They are assessed on their aesthetics and the workmanship of the details.
FLAWS
Flaw lines are value-detractor of fei tsui.Fei tsui can be cracked and even broken when crashed. We can use a torch to examine cracks and flaws, so consumer should pay special attention when making purchase.
High quality jade can be sold at desirable price, however, it has a limited supply. To maximize profit, some businessmen proceed artificial treatment to jade before putting them on the market. Jade is then categorized into “A” jade, “B” jade and “C” jade.
Treated Jade
“C” Jade
“C” jade is dyed jade. During the treatment process, dyes are injected to colourless jade under a high temperature and high pressure environment. The jade will be wholly or partly be dyed into green or purple colours, however, by and by the colour of “C” jade will become dull and fade.
“B” Jade
The treatment process of “B” jade involves removing inclusions and impurities near the surface by bleaching or other chemical means, leaving mainly green and white material. Polymer resin, a chemical that solidifies into an almost colourless, clear mass, is then injected into the stone to fill up leftover space and enhance translucency. Since the structural integrity of jade is damaged during the process, flaws will appear very easily. If dye is injected during this treatment process, it can be categorized as “B + C” jade.
Natural Jade
“A” Jade
“A” jade is natural and untreated jade. Chow Sang Sang do not condone treatment processes, so we carry only “A” jade.
From time immemorial, jade has been closely associated with the Chinese culture.
To the Chinese people, it has the power to protect body and spirit for both the living and the deceased; they also treat it as talisman. In the West, jade is sought after for its elegance, mystique and romance.
Jade can be classified into two different types, nephrite and jadeite. They are two totally different minerals. Colours of nephrite include translucent white, yellow, green, black and the colour is always evenly distributed. Colours of jadeite include white, purple, yellow, green and others; evenness of colours varies with different textures.
Most of the jades yielded in China are nephrite. Among highly treasured pieces of nephrite are some described as “mutton fat”. As the description implies, these are pieces creamy white in colour and uniformly translucent. The majority of fine-carved jade artifacts are made of nephrite.
Jadeite is mainly produced in Burma.Since it is more prominent than nephrite in different aspects, such as texture, colour and price, it is used almost exclusively in jewellery setting, which also lead to a large demand in the market, so we will confine our discussion to jadeite.
Jadeite is also known as fei tsui. The criteria we employ for its appreciation are : colour, transparency, clarity, cutting and flaws.
COLOUR
Colour is of paramount importance. We examine the colour of fei tsui according to the following criteria:
1.Purity
Purity refers to the proportion of the prime and the secondary colours. Let’s take green fei tsui as example, the most desirable is pure green; in descending order of desirability are green tinted with yellow, blue and grey.
2.Intensity
The more saturated the green the better the jade. However, an overdone intensity is of only middling quality.
3.Vividness
The colour should be vibrant and lively. The presence of grey and black makes the green dull without altering its tint.
4.Evenness
The more even the colour, the more desirable the jade and the higher the value.
TRANSPARENCY
Transparency of fei tsui affects the refraction of light and its beauty. When light enters a transparent fei tsui with fine texture, it sparkles; if light enters an opaque fei tsui with coarse texture, it refracts dull light to the eye that reduces attractiveness.
CLARITY
Clarity refers to inclusions, which cohered with jade during the formation process, mainly in black and white. In general, white inclusions are less distracting than black ones and, of course, the less visible the inclusion the better.
CUTTING
Fei tsui is usually worked into two categories: plain polished shapes such as cabochon and carved designs. Plain polished shapes require higher grade material without flaws, and with good proportion, symmetry as well as appropriate thickness. For example, a well-cut cabochon should be neither too thick nor too thin in relation to the area of its top surface. Its “bulge” should be centered, prominent but not exaggerated.
Carved designs are often used to eliminate or minimize the effect of flaws and cracks. They are assessed on their aesthetics and the workmanship of the details.
FLAWS
Flaw lines are value-detractor of fei tsui.Fei tsui can be cracked and even broken when crashed. We can use a torch to examine cracks and flaws, so consumer should pay special attention when making purchase.
High quality jade can be sold at desirable price, however, it has a limited supply. To maximize profit, some businessmen proceed artificial treatment to jade before putting them on the market. Jade is then categorized into “A” jade, “B” jade and “C” jade.
Treated Jade
“C” Jade
“C” jade is dyed jade. During the treatment process, dyes are injected to colourless jade under a high temperature and high pressure environment. The jade will be wholly or partly be dyed into green or purple colours, however, by and by the colour of “C” jade will become dull and fade.
“B” Jade
The treatment process of “B” jade involves removing inclusions and impurities near the surface by bleaching or other chemical means, leaving mainly green and white material. Polymer resin, a chemical that solidifies into an almost colourless, clear mass, is then injected into the stone to fill up leftover space and enhance translucency. Since the structural integrity of jade is damaged during the process, flaws will appear very easily. If dye is injected during this treatment process, it can be categorized as “B + C” jade.
Natural Jade
“A” Jade
“A” jade is natural and untreated jade. Chow Sang Sang do not condone treatment processes, so we carry only “A” jade.