Jade or not?!

mariusgmioc · 21st November 2016, 02:21 PM

Not long ago a friend of mine travelled to China and while in Beijing she wanted to buy a genuine Jade statue. Luckily she has a very knowledgeable Chinese friend and also did a lot of research on jade. However, after several days of looking through both high end art shops and second hand markets, the only place where she could get with certainty genuine jade was at the Geological Museum of China. And it didn't come cheap, but she got a lovely nephrite statue of a cat.

So genuine jade (nephrite or jadeite) is quite hard to find and quite expensive.

Almost all Indian "Mughal" daggers with "jade" hilts we see frequently on sale, are not jade but other similarly looking stones or even glass.

21st November 2016, 02:21 PM	#6
mariusgmioc Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Austria Posts: 1,906	Not long ago a friend of mine travelled to China and while in Beijing she wanted to buy a genuine Jade statue. Luckily she has a very knowledgeable Chinese friend and also did a lot of research on jade. However, after several days of looking through both high end art shops and second hand markets, the only place where she could get with certainty genuine jade was at the Geological Museum of China. And it didn't come cheap, but she got a lovely nephrite statue of a cat. So genuine jade (nephrite or jadeite) is quite hard to find and quite expensive. Almost all Indian "Mughal" daggers with "jade" hilts we see frequently on sale, are not jade but other similarly looking stones or even glass.