I am celebrating this holiday season with my beads and jade. Only the white jade, peanut shaped earrings with amethyst chip accent...

This 3 prong jade ornament was purchased in China. It is an archaic shape and resembles the trident shaped artifacts from Neolithic...

My friend Q taught me this simple and useful friendship knot Made in contrasting colors these knotted chains are handy for attaching...

the parrot and the pussy cat did not go down  to sea..... ....  instead they came to  my home and I am their happy host. Here are  the ...

I bought these honey-color, cylinder-shaped beads from a junkman in China. He could not tell me the exact vintage, just said "very o...

Here's a friendship braid with tiny glass beads made by my friend Q. It arrived just in time for my birthday altho Q doesn't know...

I composed and made this carnelian and rock crystal necklace using button knots. Making this necklace, provided dual benefits, as I could...

" Rather a fragment of jade than a complete tile of clay...... " was said by the fool or hero, depends on how you look at...

The birds in the tree These miniature jade birds perching on the golden tree, were previously either haipin or button adornments for up...

Turtles have such long lives. They reputedly live up to 200years. But still I daresay none can be as old as this turquoise turtle of mine...

Here is another Hongshan style pendant which was purchased together with the one in previous post. I am not normally a collector of ...

Xuang lian bi is literally translated as Double Connection Bi. It is a shape orginating from the Hongshan Culture about BC.4000–3000 ...

This Slit-tube artefact measuring 2cm long is also a Jue. According to a Chinese source (Chinese jadeware: picture reference dic...

He is made of yellow jade showing signs of red suffusion, patinisation and cleaving veins. He has large upslanting pop-out eyes, flat n...

Here are 2 white rectangular pieces I got from my friend, the connoisseur collector. She didnt want them because she thought that they we...

This face bead/pendant was first posted on July 20th 2008.  https://baiyu-quietmuse.blogspot.com/2008/07/face-bead-3.html I have only ...