Stone that keeps time
Every piece begins as rough pulled from the Uru river valley. Scroll to follow one stone from the seam to the wrist.
Burmese jadeite · Type A only
Every piece begins as rough pulled from the Uru river valley. Scroll to follow one stone from the seam to the wrist.
Rough is cut open with a single window. What the light does inside that window decides everything that follows.
A carver reads the grain for days before the first pass. Water keeps the stone cool; the sound tells him when to stop.
Eleven grades of grit, by hand. The surface stops being glass and starts being skin.
Jadeite warms to body temperature in about four minutes, and stays there. That is the part no photograph carries.
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01Collection
Every listing is a single stone. When it sells it is gone, and the page stays up so you can see what we chose.
JP-0104
$4,300.00
JE-0119
$11,400.00
JN-0056
$24,800.00
JR-0231
$9,250.00
JP-0087
$6,400.00
JB-0142
$18,600.00
02Assurance
No polymer, no dye, no bleach. Every piece ships with an independent laboratory report you can verify by number.
Issued per piece and searchable by number on the laboratory’s own site.
Kachin State, Myanmar. Lot and seam recorded wherever the seller disclosed it.
Unworn, with the report and the box seal intact.
03Journal
A bangle does not go on over the wrist. It goes on over the knuckle at the base of the thumb, which is the widest fixed…
Polishing jadeite is not one operation. It is eleven, and each one exists to remove the scratches left by the one before it. The first wheels…
A window is a small polished patch ground into the crust of a rough boulder. It is the only honest look you get before the saw,…
04Visit
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