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<p>[QUOTE="Princess Kitty, post: 9601914, member: 83653"]Chinese here may I chime in about jade</p><p><br /></p><p>While this piece really isn't impressive quality or well made and I concur with everything you said other than the precious metal and diamonds</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless it's a rather modern piece involving jadeite jade and qing onwards</p><p><br /></p><p>The rare and collectible nephrite don't come with those stuff</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese people traditionally consider gold and diamonds very tacky, and jadeite jade is only something comparably new and foreign and nouveau riche that's been skyrocketing and manipulated into high jewelry financial instruments</p><p><br /></p><p>The snobby art collectors in China most of the times dislike the flashy stuff and would often say gold has monetary value and nephrite doesn't as in priceless artifacts never come with gold attached to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Princess Kitty, post: 9601914, member: 83653"]Chinese here may I chime in about jade While this piece really isn't impressive quality or well made and I concur with everything you said other than the precious metal and diamonds Unless it's a rather modern piece involving jadeite jade and qing onwards The rare and collectible nephrite don't come with those stuff Chinese people traditionally consider gold and diamonds very tacky, and jadeite jade is only something comparably new and foreign and nouveau riche that's been skyrocketing and manipulated into high jewelry financial instruments The snobby art collectors in China most of the times dislike the flashy stuff and would often say gold has monetary value and nephrite doesn't as in priceless artifacts never come with gold attached to it.[/QUOTE]
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