The very rare purple and dark green jade in combination with pixiu motif... she was astonishing...and I know I got to take her with me...no matter what...
Purple jade stone has been cherished by many other cultures for its unique and interesting properties. In Feng Shui, purple jade is a precious gemstone believed to have mysterious healing and energizing powers. With its extravagance and auspicious nature, these purple jade stones were exclusively delegated to the lord and noble in ancient China. Whist, American Indians believed that purple jade has the healing power for kidney ailment. Basically, purple jade was said to foster creativity, promote practicality, increase body strength and encourage tolerance, wisdom and love.
The natural color jade stone must be translucent to the light and the material would look slightly fibrous within. Jade is harder than steel and should not scratch by steel blaze. There are two type of jade in the market namely jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite mainly from Burma was known to be hardest jade stone in world and tends to have brighter hues and a shinier polish than nephrite.
In fact, the experts graded the jade as A, B, C where basically the best A-jade is natural jade that has not been treated in any way; B is jade that has been bleached; and C-jade is color dyed, which commonly called fake jade. The value of jade was highly subjective and even expects could run into difficulties to identify the quality of jades by their physical appearance.
The natural purple color side of my lovely jade pixiu...
