Chapter 34: Types of Jade (I)
Mocui
At first glance, it is black and shiny, it is easy to mistake people for the black jade in Dushan jade or other black gems and jade, which is thick black and oily under natural light, but when observed under transmitted light, it is translucent, and black is translucent, especially the thin flake ink cui, the color is pleasing under transmitted light.
Some people use the term "lover's shadow" to describe the black jadeite, and some people name it "Mocui".
Black ice ink paintings
Black ice is gray-black to dark black jadeite, more than 98% jadeite, which is a single mineral rock with a compact and delicate structure. The black color is formed under the surface of the earth when jadeite is formed, often by the penetration of organic carbon.
Its texture is black, like an ink landscape painting, and the old connoisseurs also call it "ink painting jade".
Red Fei
Jadeite in bright red or orange-red color, it is easy to see in the market.
The color of the red jade is formed after the formation of jadeite crystals, which is caused by the dissemination of hematite.
It is characterized by bright red or deep red, good red Fei color, with glass luster, its transparency is translucent, red Fei products are often mid-range or low-end goods, but there are also high-end red Fei: bright color, delicate texture, very beautiful, is loved by people, with auspicious color of jadeite.
Wide films
It is characterized by dark or black green under natural light, a coarser texture, and a drier head.
Yellow-brown jade
Jadeite with a color ranging from yellow to brownish yellow or brownish yellow with a low degree of transparency, this series of jadeite products of color can be found everywhere in the market.
Their color is also formed after jadeite crystals are generated, often on top of the red layer, which is caused by limonite dissemination. In the market, the value of red fei is higher than that of yellow jade, and the value of yellow fei is higher than that of brown and yellow jade, and the price of brown and yellow fei is second.
However, there are also cases where people's love and unique jewelry make their prices different from the conventional.
There are two kinds of yellow jade, yellow to brownish yellow, generally known as golden autumn species, like crops in the autumn harvest season, brown yellow to brown yellow is also known as sauce glaze species, color like porcelain sauce glaze, also known as old.
Bashan jade
"Bashan jade" rough stone is a kind of "brick material" with coarse crystals, loose structure, dry water and poor bottom, but its color is relatively rich, with light purple, light green, green or blue gray and other colors, it is a special jadeite with a low grade and contains minerals such as amphibole and albite.
Ice species
The texture is similar to that of the old pit species, colorless or less colored, and the ice species is characterized by a good luster on the outer surface, translucent to transparent, clear and ice-like, giving people a feeling of ice and jade.
If there is a flocculent or intermittent vein-like blue color in the ice jadeite, it is called "blue ice", which is a common variety of ice jadeite.
Ice jade is often used to make bracelets or pendants. There is no obvious difference between the value of colorless ice jadeite and "blue ice" jadeite, and its actual price mainly depends on people's preferences.
The so-called ice species refers to the variety with extremely transparent texture and water spirit, which has the same effect as the golden water bodhi in colored gemstones, but the difference is that there is no so-called cotton in high-quality chalcedony, and the texture is more luster.
Aqua jadeite
The jade jade structure of the water species is slightly coarser than that of the Laokeng glass species, and the luster and transparency are slightly lower than that of the Laokeng glass species, but similar or equivalent to the ice species.
Its characteristics refer to the transparency of jadeite The higher the transparency, the better the water head refers to the internal structure The denser the internal structure, the older the species On the contrary, the rougher the internal structure, the more tender the species, transparent as water but the luster is soft, and the internal structure can be seen a little "ripple", or a small amount of dark cracks and stone grains, and occasionally very few impurities and cotton willow.
Some experts say that the water jadeite is light or colorless, and the quality is slightly worse than the old pit jadeite. It is a variety of jadeite in the middle and upper grade, and occasionally in the upper grade.
Cyan jadeite
The color is vein-like distribution, very irregular, the texture is coarse and fine, translucent, its background color is light green or other colors, such as light gray or bean green, and its structure is mainly fiber and fine-grain-medium grain structure.
Cyan jadeite is characterized by uneven green color. Some are denser, some are more sparse, and the color is dark and light. There is also a structure in cyanine jadeite that is only granular, and the water sense is insufficient, because of its rough structure, so the transparency is often very poor.
Cyanine is a mid-range or low-to-medium grade jadeite.
Oil green jadeite
Referred to as oil green or oil immersion, its transparency and luster look oily, is the market everywhere can be seen in the low-grade jadeite, commonly used to make pendants, bracelets, also made into ring face.
The green color of the oil green species is obviously impure, containing gray and blue components, so it is dull and not bright enough.
Bean seed jade
Abbreviated as bean seed, bean seed jadeite is a very common variety in the jadeite family.
The old pit planted jadeite
Commonly known as "Laokeng glass" in the commercial world, it usually has a glass luster, its texture is delicate, pure and flawless, and the color is pure, bright, rich and uniform emerald green.
The jadeite jadeite grains of the old pit are very fine, so it is extremely difficult to see the "jadeite" with the naked eye.
The old pit jadeite is translucent and transparent under the irradiation of light, and it is the top grade or the best in the jadeite.
Violet jadeite
This is a purple jadeite with a color like a violet flower, and the jewelry world also calls violet "Tsubaki" or "spring color".
Jadeite with "spring color" has high, medium and low grades, not as long as it is violet, it must be valuable, it must be of high quality, and it must be combined with quality, transparency, process production level and other quality indicators for comprehensive evaluation.
The purple on the jadeite is generally not deep, the jadeite world according to the purple ** tone of different shades, the jadeite purple is divided into pink purple, eggplant purple and blue purple, pink purple is usually finer, the transparency is better, the eggplant purple is second, the blue purple again.