Jade jewellery is for sale

with pretty jewelry and imperial jade. Many of the jade and jadeite will end up in Chanthaburi, the gem capital of Thailand and south east Asia to resold as raw or manufactured into jade jewellery, more.

The hall held treasures to dazzle even non-experts such as Jadeite in pebble form or rock took over the ground floor corridors of the hall and the sprawling outdoor compound. Even the pillars of the hall, built in 1993, were built entirely of small tiles! Since the days of the ancient Burmese kings, foreign traders and merchants have been drawn by the country’s superb jade, gems and ruby gemstone to produce beautiful jade jewellery from. The story goes that the first French gem merchants were astounded by the quality of some Nga Mauk rubies and declared them to be priceless. The awe of the French gem traders is best captured in a magnificent mural that decorates the lobby of the Gems Emporium Hall. It is amazing how a country can have such a dominant position on one mineral.

Burmese jade images tell the whole story about what a good designer and jade carving can do, there are also pics of jade mines, shops, jewelry, sculpturing and stones plus simple plus photos from Bogyoke market market the number one shopping mall for jadeite in Yangon Myanmar, more.

The mural features jadeite miners

at work, treasure chests and salvers filled with jade and kings and noblemen displaying Burmese jade and other gemstone to foreign visitors who are wide-eyed with amazement. Standing tall in the middle of it all is a bejeweled green jade queen representing Mother Myanmar sprinkling eugenia sprigs as a sign of welcome. The esteem for gems continues to this day, read more.

For this reason, hundreds of visitors arrive each year in Yangon to participate in the jade and other gems fair first held in 1964 and which is now held twice annually, in March and October most of the goods exported become Chinese jade after. Many reference books on jadeite and other gems acknowledge Myanmar to be the foremost producer of first-class jade. Indeed, the world’s commercial quantities are now believed to come only from Myanmar.

It was a varied crowd that swarmed the exhibition grounds and hall on the occasion of the jade, gems and pearls Fair. There were portly middle-aged men whose eyes glowed with the quality of the jadeite,

Yangon emporium visitors

came from Asia including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. Jade was the main attraction. Said a buyer from Taiwan: “I am only here to look for jadeite, because my customers back home prefer it to other gemstones”. Explaining the Chinese preference for jadeite, he added: “The people believe that China Jade it is a living stone; its color deepens as it is worn over time.” The fondness stems from an old Chinese legend which tells how an ancient king was once cured of an illness by wearing a jade stone. So many Chinese like to wear it because of its alleged protective and curative powers. The fair is divided into two sections. The ground floor features displays of uncut as well as cut and polished gems and jade stone as well as jade jewellery pieces.

Also a Jade Buddha encrusted with ruby and gold dust is for sale,

if this is exported it usually becomes Chinese jade. This are very valuable items costing easily 20-30 thousand dollars and the people are buying it means there is a lot of money out there to be spent for a magnificent Jade Buddha. A Jade Buddha usually comes in white or lavender color and this are are beautiful art objects, read more. 

There are sapphire and ruby pendants, rings, earrings, bracelets and pearls set in gold, with or without diamonds plus inexpensive pieces for sale such as Myanmar jadeite rings for US$1 baroque jadeite pieces for US$3, jade bracelets for US$30 and for the indulgent, jadeite chopsticks atUS$80.00 a pair. There are more expensive pieces of course, US$3,500 for an exquisite tea set consisting of a pot, six cups and a tray, splendid jade carvings from simple animal figurines to more complex Jade Buddha. There are ruby cabochon rings set in 18-carat gold going from US$100, sapphire rings from US$150 and pearl rings from US$90. For those with larger budgets there are ruby-encrusted gold pens for US$2,000.

All jadeite, gems and jewelry

on the ground floor may be bought over the counter from the vendors who represent joint ventures between private companies and the government. Jadeite items on display are of good quality and feature surprisingly contemporary designs. Authenticity of the jadeite is assured and a certificate for customs clearance is

issued with every purchase. All told, 129 lots of gems, 38 lots of jadeite, 5,705. Myanmar jewelry pieces and 5,261 pieces of jadeite carving valued atUS$4.16 million were available for sale over the counter. The second floor features gems, pearls, raw jade stones and carvings exhibited by government-owned mines and sold only by auction.

Jade is auctioned

in a competitive bidding process sealed bids are received for each lot of jade and other and the highest bid over the reserve price wins the particular order. Some jadeite gems were so coveted that the bid was several times the reserve price! A single imperial jade semi-cut piece for instance, weighing 66.1 grams with a reserve price of US$3,500 sold for US$10,000. Auctioning for jade began at a slow pace in the morning of the first day but in the afternoon, the pace quickened. There was still much examining of the jade every time a lot was called for bids. A mind-boggling 339 lots of gems, 621 lots of jade and 120 lots of pearl valued at a total of US$18.6 million were put up for auction. Not all lots received bids. The percentage of jade gems and jade jewellery successfully auctioned off varies from fair to fair. Emporiums turnovers are up to US$ 15 million, twice per year. It is estimated that some 60 to 80 per cent of all lots on display are sold at each Emporium.

Said a jade merchant from Hong Kong who was on his 15th visit to the Myanmar Gems Emporium, “Myanmar is the only place where you can find jade in such quantities. Some years, I have found really good quality jade at reasonable prices; other times, I couldn’t find anything I liked or the prices were too high. But I have to come  here every year anyway to see what’s in the market.” Despite some reservations about price, most

of the visitors to the Myanmar Gems Emporium agree on one thing, the gems are of superior quality to those found elsewhere and many gem dealers and jewelers are willing to pay the price. At the biannual Yangon Emporium plenty of green jadeite is up for sale. For instance, slabs of jadeite of various colors and sizes. A piece of jadeite of about 2 kg and other jade rocks and boulders with up to several tons are available.

Jade pictures tell as it is always said

more than thousand words it is almost not possible to harness this great gems into a frame of words beside of some historical and technical texts. Jade pictures visualize the raw material, beautiful jewelry, sculptures, statues, figurines and other. The pics also are the medium to know and understand the colors of the different variants all is easy to understand with jade pictures, read more.

Myanmar jadeite with a deep green color

is high prized Imperial jade valued at a  staggering US$300,000 for a two-ton boulder of light green jade lined with dark green veins at a reserve price of US$180,000. There are more expensive pieces of course, US$3,500 for an exquisite jadeite tea set consisting of a pot, six cups and a tray, splendid jade carvings from simple animal figurines to more complex Buddha images, Buddha statues and small figurines, read more

A jade bangle is probably the most popular jade jewelry,

Chinese ladies love them, this gorgeous pieces of a somehow exotic jewelry adorn many women over around 30 years in Asia. With the younger crowd pendants are more popular. Bangles are very decorative items, they look good, come in many varieties, colors, as carved items in in a wide price range which spans from around $ 8,- for a genuine (no yoke) it's available at the Bogyoke Market in Yangon, Mae Sot, Thailand, street market and other places one to several thousand dollars, it depends on the texture, color and translucency, read more.
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