Chinese Export Bracelet

Jade or Quartz?

 

Find someone with a gem tester, it's the only way to be sure

 

I guess having 925 mark would make it post 70's?

 

I don't know when they started using these marks, but it is too recent to call it Chinese Export. That is a term used for a specific style of Chinese jewellery that was made before 1950, some would say 1960.

 

Found a nice article, never new that:

"Late Chinese Export Jewelry (1971-1990’s) = Trade resumed with China in 1971. The communist government required all the citizens to relinquish all of their personal silver jewelry and adornments. You had to comply to show your patriotism. The government then sold all the jewelry to Western buyers"

source: http://www.danaraejewelry.com/chinese-export-research.html

 

Interesting!
Yes, I remember that during that time a lot of vintage and antique Chinese jewellery came this way. It was late export for the Chinese government, but the jewellery was old. Poor Chinese.
Well, we've sold some jewellery back to them over the years.

 

It looks like jade rather than quartz, but odds are it's been dyed within an inch of its life. A good jeweler might be able to tell for certain.

 

Yes I'd say dyed, with a possible exception of the celadon green one.

 

Re:export jewelry (late)

Interesting (and sad)

Good to know, because I would have associated the term "export" with much earlier export silver and porcelain.

 

I believe it's a Chakra bracelet with each stone balancing specific energy zones - that kind of jewelry would likely be contemporary/commercial.

Chakra stones

 

It is not a chakra bracelet. Chakra bracelets follow the sequence of the colours of the chakras for energy balancing, otherwise they are not expected work:


It is one of many variations of the multi coloured dyed jade bracelets out there.

 

Oops! You're right, @Any Jewelry ----- Can't get anything by you

Here's my own sort of vintage sort of chakra necklace... I wasn't really sure it was chakra, but it did have a very specific order I couldn't quite figure out - I see now they separated the clear quartz with the gold beads.

This is the photograph i gave a jeweler to make sure it was restrung exactly how I found it. I hope it's correct - I never matched up all the colors!and never actually tested the gold - I love it and don't really care too much if it is.

Do you have any idea how old mine might be?

 

Thanks for all the replies.
How can you tell dyed from natural jade? Sometimes it's obvious as the colors look artificial but here I can't tell.
By dyed you mean the stones were somewhat clear and they were colored or they they were just enhanced?

 

Also, I don't quite understand something in the article. They say the "late export" pieces could have old "China", "Silver" marks on the findings and "925" elsewhere. Does this mean that the old jewelry was restamped with "925"?

Scoutshouse, I guess by late export they mean the time the pieces were shipped to the West. There were still older. I just don't get if China did not make any jewelry during 1949-1971 or they made but just did not trade.

 

Natural blue jade is rare as heck, and I'd expect it to be set in gold if it's gem quality. Purple too. I've never seen any natural purple jade that evenly colored. If those two are dyed, odds are the rest are too. The black might be onyx or natural black jade..or dyed. Odds are that one is natural however; black jade isn't all that highly prized.

I don't think the Chinese ever stopped making jewelry; they just didn't make it for export.

 

Yes, I got that, @kardinalisimo

I just thought of goods made specifically for export, not personal jewelry exported because it had been stolen by the government!