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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 228135, member: 2844&quot;]Nephrite is the collector&#039;s jade, jadeite is for those who like bling. Nephrite is for the old Chinese scholars and aristocracy, bright jadeite became popular when the merchant classes started to make money. A Chinese case of too much money and no taste<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />. But jadeite pieces can be very beautiful and also very expensive.</p><p>At the moment the most expensive Chinese jade is Hetian (Hotan) nephrite, from the western Sinjiang Province (Uyghur territory).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some nephrite is very much like jadeite and vice versa. On the last picture your pendant is more celadon green, it could be Xiu nephrite jade. Could you take a picture without too many reflections? One way to do that is put a white lampshade over the pendant and photograph through the hole in the top. I always use one of those Modernist half globe shades, they have no metal construction that gets in the way. Make sure you have some natural light (window, door) from one side, that way it shows detail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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