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What is White Jade Jadeite Nephrite

Excellent quality white jade is mostly jadeite but also often nephrite produced in Hetian and other places in China, this actually is tremolite nephrite. There is also some quartzite defined as "Beijing jade" which is fine quartzite looking a bit like transparent and like glowing glass.

There is also the calcite type called "Afghan Jade", actually it’s rather a variant of marble with white color and some translucency. What is white jade has a simple answer, its Burmese jade when jadeite and often Chinese jade when nephrite.

Here again it’s the same pattern of all kind of definition but nothing is the real thing, the real thing is jadeite from Myanmar or Burma. The stone is often used to create a Jade Buddha and some Hindu gods plus exotic oriental statues for decoration, beside of white lavender colored stones are often used for bigger statues since only the lower jade price for this two colors allow to create a bigger item, e.g. bigger statues in good green jade get easily prohibitive expensive.

It is an ideal material to create something precious with stately dimensions to impress. It’s much harder than marble and all other stones, only precious stone such as diamond, ruby and a few more are harder. White also tells purity and the ideal gem to impress others.

This piece of art is placed somewhere good visible in the house or in a temple as a sacred Buddha sculpture, sometimes a Hindu Goddess or similar is created.

Probably the most renowned Jade Buddha figures of real white color are in Shanghai's Jade Buddha Temple. They were carried to Shanghai by the end of the 19th century by a Buddhist Monk from Burma. This material has a somehow similar image as Carrara marble but naturally its much more precious. Chinese jade jewelry and statues plus other items are often coming from the Hetian area but this type of  is optically not very appealing, its rather dull.

What is white jade
White jade
Buddha Sculpture
Buddha Sculpture with gold and ruby dust

 

 


 

Jadeite Jade carvings

on the other hand is mostly shiny and bright a great piece of artwork.

This precious stone is transferred into an beautiful sculpture by artists who sometimes spend a month or more to create a real piece of art.

Only the final object usually looks quite different for "western" eyes, it has a real exotic touch, its a jade Buddha, maybe an Indian goddess or some mythical Chinese figures, its a lot of fantasy.

 

 

 

Carving
White jade carvings
Buddha Statue
Buddha Statue, jadeite jade.

 
religious sculpture
Burmese jadeite
Desktop decoration
Desktop decoration
 

 
 


 
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