Of course it is next to impossible to identify jadeite from photographs but these look a lot like Dushan Jade, and because of the price I would be...
The second example and maybe the first too I’d be very suspicious of the color and clarity of the bangle for $99 has to be either treated or some...
Also, It could be a child’s bangle, it may or may not be the same quality as this example but you can see the size comparison.[ATTACH]
Do a specific gravity test that might tell you, nephrite SG is usually between 2.90 and 3.04 Jadeite SG runs between 3.25 and 3.36
Yes thank you, it is exactly 32mm in diameter.
I posted this on another jade forum and a member there who spends their free time studying jade carvings by microscope identifying the age of...
Nice score
Gold right now is a little under $89g white best quality Hetian $1000g not including the Qing dynasty attribution. but this is not the most...
Myself included in that pack of clueless sellers on occasion. I think I might have thrown a sizable piece of that white river jade in the dirt at...
This I think is a chair from the palace collection superimposed over our friends chair the curve of the arms and other details are very similar...
The white jade mostly goes unrecognized here, my river pebble a piece of the best you could find in China every jade shop I venture into they are...
From an exhibition at the forbidden city, “As part of efforts to display more cultural relics in the Palace Museum in Beijing, the public will...
The white jade is worth more than solid gold statues by a factor of 10…
Ha ha, I don’t know but I’d kinda guess like the rest of us he had more than one chair, lol. But ya who knows although the white jade is the good...
And I forgot to mention my wife could give Vegas shopping tours… she is a professional, lol.
I’ll bet it’s used for both… I’ve played at a few friends homes and they are all a lot better than me at billiards/pool and ping pong too my wife...
I don’t know much about antique furniture but never thought there would be antler furniture in an 18th century Chinese palace?
Although it does look kinda like about a thousand other gift shops in China, lol.
Thank you, It’s antique eye candy… and I don’t know gifts, decorations around the forbidden city things someone at the time collected but...
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