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 In representing Chinese jewellery we have chosen to emphasize jewellery with jade as this stone is so highly regarded through Chinese history.
Museum Jewelery offers the shown imperial Chinese jade necklace for USD 142,68.
Buy the necklace through our "Newsletter campaign offer", and get a pair of earrings in the same design for free.
Newsletter - Jade in Ancient China
Jade stones
With a hardness of 6-6,5 (Mohs) jade/Jadeit is counted as one of the precious stones.
Described as "jade", is also nephrit, (Mohs)-hardness 5,5-6. Very often it will be used instead of jade, because it is more easily to work.
The primary colour of the jade is colourless or milky non-transparent (so-called Mutton Fat Jade).
Chrome contamination will give the jade an emerald green, with iron compounds it is brown, manganese contamination will get violet colours and a calcium contamination lets to a lot of different colours as white, pale greenly, red, brown and sometimes also blue.
Read more using the following links:
Jade and Chinese mythology
Cutting and Polishing
Transforming jade from stone to culture
Jade in Chinese belief
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