Jade Shop

A jade shop is somehow a center for commercial oriental art.

In a jade shop there are hardly any other material where artwork and jewelry is so close connected. When exploring this creations it is clear that in needs an artist to build this items. It wont matter if it is a simple bangle or pendant of more sophisticated Buddha sculpture or a carving depicting some landscape or a flower composition. All this needs high skills and creative abilities this is one of the reasons why all this has a high price tag.

Jade jewelry in the shop

Beautiful jade pendants 

Beautiful jade pendants 

One of the best jadeite shopping in world is for sure the Bogyoke Market in Yangon, this great oriental bazaar is overwhelming not only because of the gemstones. There are also other such as rubies, sapphires, pearls and plenty of other semi precious stones. They also have some ethnic jewelry and designer creations, all look real good.

Jadeite and white gold rings

One of the most favorite jewelry with Chinese people is jade. They consider it as a good luck stone, preferable in imperial green but available in most colors; this makes it also interesting as fashion jewelry.

The mineral has some superstitious components which represents fortune, purity beauty and style. If you want to buy something go to s shop where either you or friends know the owner because otherwise the chance to get cheated is rather high, there is some much grading and hidden parameters which a non-trained eye can’t discover.

The first thing is to define the material; the green mineral can be nephrite or jadeite.  Jadeite usually has a higher value because of clarity, texture, shininess and colors and is rarer.  Until now it is only mined in Myanmar’s Kachin State in the north of the country.

Beside of all kind of jewelry items such as bangles, bracelets, pendants, necklaces earrings shops also have sculptures for sale, all this is in the high price range. This is a highly polished gemstone with a high price tag if the parameter indicated before are excellent. One more very important is translucency, it’s simply, the more translucency the higher the price.