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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. |
