| There are some jade and stones that we
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| | the kidney.
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| know very less about them. The natives of
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| | Ancient jade objects of various shapes
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| New Zealand sometimes use these stones
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| | were used for ceremonial purposes and
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| for making figures of human and even
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| | many of them have been excavated in
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| articles like axe-head. These stones had
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| | modern times. They have received much
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| never failed to surprise and delight the
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| | attention from scholars and are rarely to
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| craftsmen and collectors alike.
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| | be seen outside museums. The Chinese jade
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| Jade and other stones
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| | that is most likely to be found by the
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| STONES from comparatively hard jade to
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| | collector is seldom older than the
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| the aptly named soapstone have always
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| | eighteenth century. Being a hard stone it
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| presented a challenge to the craftsman.
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| | acquires few signs of wear, and with the
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| Whenever they were to be found in
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| | Chinese habit of copying the designs of
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| suitable size and shape it was an
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| | earlier days it is not easy to determine
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| invitation to the lapidary to attempt to
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| | the age of many specimens. Large pieces
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| fashion them into works of art. The
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| | of undoubted age can be very costly, but
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| comparison between a rough natural stone
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| | small examples of less certain vintage
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| and the result of careful carving and
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| | may be found for no more than a few
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| polishing never ceases to surprise and
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| | pounds apiece.
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| delight the onlooker. The finest
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| | The so-called 'Mogul' jade is usually of
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| specimens barely indicate the skill and
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| | a pale grey-green colour, carved very
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| patience that contributed to their
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| | thinly and often with pierced decoration.
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| finished form, but a brief study will
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| | Some was inlaid with gold and precious
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| show why the Chinese and others revered
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| | stones, which seem to acquire an added
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| jade and why Europeans attempted to rival
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| | fire against the background of the limpid
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| rock crystal with glass.
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| | stone. The Mogul jades were made in
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| Jade
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| | India, but were esteemed sufficiently by
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| The Oriental mind has woven a wealth of
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| | the Chinese for the Imperial workshops to
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| legend into this stone, which varies in
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| | have a department where work in this
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| colour from pale grey-green and light
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| | manner was produced.
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| lavender to a deep green that is almost
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| | The natives to make axe-heads and
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| black in some lights. Geologists into two
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| | ornaments used a green nephrite found in
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| distinct types divide it: jadeite and
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| | New Zealand. Of the latter, the 'Tiki', a
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| nephrite. The latter is slightly less
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| | ferocious-looking distorted human figure,
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| hard and under a microscope it will be
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| | represents the Maori Creator who 'took
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| seen that 'in cross-section the fibers
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| | red clay, and kneaded it with his own
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| have cleavage cracks intersecting, not at
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| | blood'. These pendant talisman are flatly
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| approximately 90°, as in jadeite, but at
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| | rendered, and usually about three inches
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| 120°, and there are numerous other
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| | high and one and a half inches wide.
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| differences . . .' However, few, if any,
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| | Specimens some nine inches in height are
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| collectors attempt to distinguish between
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| | known but are very rare when so large,
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| the two, and describe them both as jade.
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| | and collectors should beware of modern
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| The stone is alleged by the Chinese to
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| | copies of them in all sizes.
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| have been forged from a rainbow in order
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| | Pieces of these stones nicely carved and
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| to make thunderbolts for the God of
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| | polished can fetch a high price for
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| Storms, and it is also the traditional,
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| | collectors. The beliefs that some of
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| although surely unpalatable, food of the
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| | these stones possess magical and curative
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| Taoist genii. By most of the nations of
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| | properties made them all the more
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| antiquity it was regarded as possessing
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| | expensive. But their dates are very
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| magical and curative properties; not only
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| | difficult to verify because the Chinese
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| was it looked on also as a symbol of
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| | often copied from the past designs making
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| virtue, but it was supposed to be of
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| | it all the more difficult to identify.
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| value in the cure of diseases affecting
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