Jewelry

Coral is the three Organic Gems in western countries together with pear and amber, and is one of the seven Buddhist Code with luck and happiness standing for noble and right and becoming the symbol of happiness forever in eastern countries from ancient time. Especially in Chinese, it was very popular not only in the decoration for those rajas, but also the material of rayer beads for many Tibetan Lama dignitaries' use. Those princes went to court every day wearing the cap and the bunch of beads which are all made of coral. It is recorded that the coral is the talisman in the Alkoran of Islam. In modern society, the coral is the State Gemstone in Hawaii of USA.

Pearl is one of seashell, whose main ingredient is calcium carbonate. The pearl in the market now included nature and manpower. It is said in Chinese that the older the woman is, the more yellow the pearl is. Therefore, the pearl is seldom well kept. The scale of the pearl is the shape, color, polish, size etc. Generally, it is the best of ellipse, the second is in round, flat round, steamed-bread round and bubby shape. The one with delicate and smooth skin is fine.

We have a long history of collection and enjoyment of natural stone and form a kind of stone culture with Chinese character, which we find and appreciate the interior beauty of the crystal through its transparent appearance by the Chinese traditional culture.

The precious stone which symbolizes the heaven color was always the girding jewelry for emperors, nobles. Even before, it was the best medication to cure the diseases of the eye and murrain. Sapphire in top quality is in blue plush color and produced from the northwestern area in India which is a mountain region with abominable weathe?ccalled Kashmir. However, ??there is no one exploreing at present exact because of the dangerous situation. The well-known producing area is in Thailand and Burma now.

Diamond with cube crystal of carbon element belongs to natural mineral. Australia, South Africa, India are all the main producing areas of diamond. America, the Netherlands and Belgium are the bases of diamond cut, especially Belgium, which is the trade center of diamond cut as the whole world generally acknowledged. The difference of the qualities adopt the international rule 4C, that means, carat, color, clarit and cattiong. We usually appreciate the diamond with the shape of round, pear, ellipse, heart, horse-eye, triangle, rectangle, emerald square etc. After the aborative design, it can be inlay the rare jewelry, such as necklace, earring, finger ring etc.

Agate, which is used to inlay the jewelry and carve the craftwork, is a kind of precious stone. Agates in different grades in red, blue, purple and pink colors, and with transparence, less impurity, less sand inlay, less crack are all best, among which the complete block weigh more than 4.5kgs is of top grade, more than 1.5kgs is of the first, and between 0.5 and 1.5kgs is the second.

Ruby, sapphire, diamond, emerald and opal are called by a joint name precious stone. The producing area of ruby are mainly concentrated in Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Africa, among which the ruby from Burma is of the top quality, especially the "pigeon blood" called by some European and American people is most excellent in the precious stones as generally acknowledged all over the world. The price is surely high. The ancient name of Thailand is Jueluo, till now the name of "Jueluo precious stone" is being used in the jewelry field. The color of ruby from Thailand is between wine and tint redbrown. From Sri Lanka the color is tint red, less tint red or orchid, also it is very popular because of its tint tone which is much brighter and fresher than Thailand's and Burma's. Tanzania and Kenya of Africa is also the famous producing areas of ruby, some precious stones in mini orchid color is from Tanzania, and Kenya, teem with cashew shape, which is extremely popular among western ladies.