Thank you for the compliments! I love your jades too! Yes, nails for the Lunar New Year hahaVintageeygirl, thank you!
I love your jades, the colors are soothing. An the golden bangle really regal.
By the way, great nails!
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What a meaningful name! Imperfectly perfect! Or perfectly imperfect! ❤️About the name... I forgot if it ever had one.Did not wear it for quite a time.
I call it Brenda. Brenda means Sword and this bangle is far from perfect.
The most beautiful part looks like hit by a sword.
But this does not mean I love it less. I think it is a symbol for life and beauty. And for surviving.
Hi JKP! I have never heard of Ming’s until I read this forum. It’s not a Ming’s haha. Nor a custom bracelet. I got it from a local vintage seller. I think in the 70s and 80s, such bracelets used to be a piece of wedding jewellery. Even now. Like maybe used in the dowry or wedding gift from parents. Dragon and Phoenix symbolise perfect marriage match in Chinese culture. I love it cos it’s so bold.
I believe there's a trade name for what Nandar described the sparkly grains in coarse jade. I think it's Fly's Wings (蝇翅) which describes how the crystals in the jade are parallel to each other forming a plane instead of intersecting each other to form the cryptocrystalline structure that gives it their famous tenacious quality, people who buy jade in their rough form most often find those effect since more often than not they're unpolished even after it's been cut, but there are times where you can find sellers selling finished pieces of jade that still retains the fly's wings effect. The effect seem to only appear in coarse jade (Bean/Pea type, Glutinous type, Glutinous-Ice type, and rarely Ice type) High Ice, and Glassy jade don't have those effects, instead those are replaced with Cotton/Snow (which in my opinion look incredibly pretty).
Holy cow.... that bit on flyʻs wings brought me back! We havenʻt spent as much time talking properties of jade in awhile in this thread! haha... I did a bit of digging and the "original" jade thread started waaaay back in 2012 with a question from BreadnGem.
Also, to add on, flyʻs wings can be seen in treated jade, from that thread, "...if a bangle is a grade C with dye only, but no structural damage as in grade B, if it had fly's wings before dying, it will also have them after. So a bangle with fly wings is not grade B, B&C, but could be grade C still..."
Also, to add on, flyʻs wings can be seen in treated jade, from that thread, "...if a bangle is a grade C with dye only, but no structural damage as in grade B, if it had fly's wings before dying, it will also have them after. So a bangle with fly wings is not grade B, B&C, but could be grade C still..."
Thanks for the jade education! I have read about fly wing’s on this forum but still have difficulty picturing it! Maybe I need to Google for images. It’s interesting that Grade C with dye only still preserves the crystalline structure of jade. That sounds to me a lot better than grade B with its bleaching and polymers etc? I had a Grade B which I sold recently. Here are the pix. I loved the colours before I became more educated on jade but wore it only occasionally
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Thank you for the jade education! (Love your user name btw) so interesting to learn more about jade here on this forum! I think Nandar was referring to coarser grains but maybe not fly wings as one of the “colourless” bangles I was looking at has coarser grains and somehow it sparkled more compared to a very fine grained white one which was very uniformed and has compact grains and seemed to hv no “sparkle” tho it was definitely a better piece.
Ps I’m still not entirely sure what cotton or snow looks like but believe one of my icy (probable a glutinous ice?) bangles has this effect in parts of it. It is certified to have fine grains though. Do fine grained bangles have cotton/snow too?
Vintageygirl... there were so many good photos and discussions on the first jade thread. I think weʻre on thread #5 right now.
Have you been through the other threads? Hereʻs a link to the very first one: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/qn-on-jade-bangle.754664/
And a reference thread for A jade. haha https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/jade-and-jadeite-photos-only-no-chat.855984/
Have you been through the other threads? Hereʻs a link to the very first one: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/qn-on-jade-bangle.754664/
And a reference thread for A jade. haha https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/jade-and-jadeite-photos-only-no-chat.855984/
No I haven’t been through the other threads! Thank you so much for sharing, will def check them out! I’m only at about page 800+ of this thread haha then decided to join in and contribute Its my fav leisure activity now, reading the jade forum! I now only buy Grade A either from reputable sellers like UJ or get them certified by a reputable lab before I get them
Sharing some of my earlier pieces which I have since sold after developing a taste for the finer pieces. 1. My very first jade bangle from more than 10 years ago - Mint green one with coarse grain. Dunno if A or B. It was inexpensive and I did love it. 2. Grade B bright green and colourless. 3. Grey/lavender/green from Maithong. It was too big for me. 4. Lavender semi-Princess. Had long stone lines which I only realised after collecting the bangle. Colour is paler than in photo. 5&6 couple of vintage jade bracelets but I’m not sure if A or B. Thanks for letting me share!
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Here’s my vintage Dragon Phoenix bracelet with my Tri colour jade bangle and jade ring! Thanks for letting me share too
All three pieces are Oooh la la gorgeous! Love it! ❤️
Thank you very much for sharing!