The jade used to make Chinese carvings is called nephrite which is a crystalline calcium magnesium silicate. Jade is white in its purest form but ... Mutton-fat jade brush pot, Qing Dynasty, 18th ...
Huang Ying, curator of a jade exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum, talks about a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) dark green jade vase duplicate of a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) bronze vase with a fish ...