Title: Chinese Stone Jade Green Bracelet In A Hand Carved Ring Design
Shipping: $29.00
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Period: Unassigned
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Origin: Central Asia > China
Condition: Excellent
Item Date: 1800s to 1900s
Item ID: 3407
This is a large semi precious stone hand carved design jade bracelet. Take a trip to Chinatown and you’ll see Asian women everywhere wearing jade bracelets. The Chinese believe that jade protects you — that the jade would sooner break before anything harmful would happen to you. In gemstone therapy, jade also has some fascinating properties. Jade gemstone is unique symbolic energy, and exclusive in the myths that surround it. With its loveliness and wide-ranging articulateness, jade has held a special magnetism for mankind for thousands of years. Symbolic energy and good looks, the conventional and the modern are combined in jade in a mainly harmonious way. And in gemstone therapy it is said that jade 'stimulates creativity and cerebral agility on the one hand, while also having a complementary and harmonizing effect.' So this good-looking gemstone brings us joy, vivacity and happiness all at the similar time – and what, in our times, could we perhaps need more?
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade
Jade is an ornamental stone. The term jade is applied to two different metamorphic rocks that are made up of different silicate minerals:
• Nephrite consists of a microcrystaline interlocking fibrous matrix of the calcium, magnesium-iron rich amphibole mineral series tremolite (calcium-magnesium)-ferroactinolite (calcium-magnesium-iron). The middle member of this series with an intermediate composition is called actinolite (the silky fibrous mineral form is one form of asbestos). The higher the iron content the greener the colour.
• Jadeite is a sodium- and aluminium-rich pyroxene. The gem form of the mineral is a microcrystaline interlocking crystal matrix.
The English word jade (as well as the English word "jadeite") is derived (via French l'ejade and Latin ilia) from the Spanish term piedra de ijada (first recorded in 1565) or "loin stone", from its reputed efficacy in curing ailments of the loins and kidneys. Nephrite is derived from lapis nephriticus, the Latin version of the Spanish piedra de ijada.
Nephrite and jadeite were used from prehistoric periods for hardstone carving. Jadeite has about the same hardness as quartz, while nephrite is somewhat softer. Both nephrite and jadeite are tough, but nephrite is tougher than jadeite. They can be delicately shaped. It was not until the 19th century that a French mineralogist determined that "jade" was in fact two different materials. The trade name jadite is sometimes applied to translucent or opaque green glass.
