Friends of Jade

Dear all,

My father acquired a few years ago a piece which represents a monk holding a baby. It's about 40cm tall by about 16 cm wide, and it weighs around 6.5kg. It is black with very a few fine translucent green veins.

He has been told it's black jade, and someone just came to the house yesterday and offered him a large sum of money to take it right then. This made my dad suspicious as no one generally is that happy to part from their money that quickly. Is the piece worth a lot more?

We have no expertise in this area, so any advise from this community would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
AF

Hi All

I acquired a very huge piece many years, a Arhat/Lohan on a dragon. It's about 26" tall by 18" wide by 12" death, and it weight should be around 100kg and it needs 3 men to carry. It is black in sight but dark green in the sunlight, lustre surface and carving is superb. The last collector told me it's black jade and from Qing dynasty period. I do not know the current value but I guess jade value has appreciate of late.

Any serious collector from this community wish to see the photo, please email me at rtbs168@gmaail.com

Regards!

Sorry, my email should be rtbs168@gmail.com btw I have more than 50 pieces of white jade carving in my collection. Please email me if you are keen cause I am considering to let go some. Thanks!

Hi Sam, Please email me again at rtbs168@gmail.com. I lost your email address. Thanks!

Hi I have a pics black jade from Myanmar.Jade is already sold out with about US$400k.Yes black jade is rare to get so its value is very high.Some like it very much.Some say it is used in the nu missile.Is it correct?Anybody know?

Hi, Do you have any photo of your piece? How big is it? Mine looks black but dark green if you shine it with a touchlight.

You folks may already be well aware of this, but it is easy to turn many green varieties of nephrite black by heat treatment...