With its strong appeal to Asian collectors, the gemstone has seen huge growth in value; jewellery expert Sze Sze of Poly Auction Hong Kong takes us through the basics of appreciating jadeite and ...
As the Qing declined in the late 19th century, many imperial treasures were taken out of the palaces and some like these beads, ended up in Europe fashioned into haute joaillerie by Cartier in the ...
Only available from Myanmar and traditionally cherished in imperial China, where quality green gemstones were believed to be a symbol of purity, jadeite has been less well known elsewhere – until now ...
A stunning 20-piece jewellery collection, made from one of the world’s rarest gemstones, Imperial Jadeite, has been unveiled for auction, with all proceeds set to go towards humanitarian efforts ...
Hailing from a private collection, the bling was expected to fetch between $3.2 million and $4.5 million at the auction house’s Jewels & Jadeite sale. It didn’t quite reach the high estimate, but the ...
A jadeite necklace once owned by U.S. retail heiress Barbara Hutton was bought by the Cartier Collection at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong on Monday evening for 214 million Hong Kong dollars ...
The historically important Hutton-Mdi-vani jadeite necklace fashioned out of 27 beads reputedly from the Qing Dynasty's (1644-1911) imperial court sold at Sotheby's this week for HK$214 million ...