Are these are beads or pebbles.? Their unformed shape resembles little pebbles but they have holes drilled in them so they can be strung u...

This brown fish is, um a     bird ! looks like a fish Picked up among the riff-raff of a flea market in China it is a tantalising p...

The heading for this post sounds like some sensational web blast. But take a look at this bead and you will be struck by the resemblance t...

I had forgotten all about this seal which I had purchased in Phnom  Penh some years back. So glad I rediscovered it in time for the lunar ne...

I am ringing in Lunar New Year 2012 with this tiny jade dragon. This is no ferocious fire spitting dragon. He is quiet and mysterious - he ...

This is a pair of tiny jade jue ear ornaments I bought in China. Perhaps they are not even a matched pair as one is slightly larger than th...

Jade birds....... From neolithic times to the present day, birds in their infinite variety and plumage have been carved on jade. These ca...

JADE AND CHALCEDONY RINGS...... The top, centre and bottom rings shown in pic 1 are chalcedony while the two rings on the left and right ...

.....Jade flowers.... The jade flowers I show in this post date from the Ming-Qing period(1368-1912 )  Carved in rosette or elongated sha...