What are the six colors of jade?

Because consumers traditionally associate jadeite with the color green, it surprises some people to learn that it comes in other colors as well—lavender, red, orange, yellow, brown, white, black, and gray.

What is the rarest color of jade?

Generally, blue is the color of jade that is the rarest because it comes from only a few deposits found in Guatemala, Japan and Myanmar. Green and lavender jade are more common.

What are the different colors of jade?

Jadeite is the rarer variety and fetches the highest prices. Nephrite occurs more abundantly and usually has more affordable prices. Both types of jade can come in green, red, black, gray, brown, yellow, and white/cream colors. Jadeite can also show lavender, orange, and blue hues.

What is the true color of jade?

Jade Color

Jadeite is most prized in its pure green variety, but can be found in many colors ranging from red, pink, black, brown, white, and even violet with variations of colors overlapping one another.

Which colour jade is best?

Hue (zheng): Top-quality jadeite is pure green. While its hue position is usually slightly more yellow than that of fine emerald and it never quite reaches the same saturation of color, the ideal for jadeite is a fine "emerald" green.

The Meaning of Colors (Symbolism) in Jadeite with Mason-Kay Jade

What are the rarest types of jade?

Imperial Jade from Burma is the most expensive type of Jade. It is the most expensive because it is the highest quality, the most sought-after color, and remains today the most highly prized source of jadeite around the world.

What does jade mean spiritually?

Jade is a highly valued stone that symbolizes gentleness, serenity, harmony, and balance in feng shui, or the practice of bringing balance to your life and home with energy. Jade has many meanings, including strength, luck, and good health. Jade is also revered for its healing properties balancing the body's processes.

What color is mystic jade?

Cone 06 oxidation (large photo): Mystic Jade is a semi-translucent blue/green base glaze with variegated jade/brown crystals.

Is there a rainbow jade?

Like our other new jade beads, rainbow jade is actually bowenite, a type of serpentine that is similar to nephrite jade.

What color is closest to jade?

Jade is similar to teal, mint, turquoise, and emerald. The green is more blue than emerald, less blue than teal, and less bright than turquoise.

What color is jade Dragon?

Jade Dragon SW 9129 | Green Paint Colors | Sherwin-Williams. This cool green and its blue-gray undertone brings a romantic, nature-inspired mood to your space.

What color is moonlight jade?

Pantone / PMS 12-5408 TCX / Moonlight Jade / #c7e5df Hex Color Code. The hexadecimal color code #c7e5df is a light shade of green-cyan. In the RGB color model #c7e5df is comprised of 78.04% red, 89.8% green and 87.45% blue.

What color is pale jade?

A lovely mid-toned green with a hint of blue paint color, this lucky color is perfect for all walls in use as a bedroom paint color.

What does the Bible say about jade?

Jade is mentioned in the Bible as a precious stone representing one of Israel's 12 tribes on the breastplate of judgment worn by the highest priest in ancient Israel Exodus 28:20, Exodus 39:13. In the second place, it is mentioned a decoration on the covering of the King of Tyre Ezekiel 28:13.

What is the luckiest jade?

Green jade has been treasured in the Far East and Central America for thousands of years and was even given the status of royal gemstone by these ancient civilizations. The sacred stone is considered a sign of luck and good fortune. It is also associated with abundance, wealth, and prosperity.

What month is jade birthstone?

Jade. In the old Tibetan calendar, Jade is the birthstone for March. Jade is likewise a zodiac stone for Pisces, which falls partly on the month of March. This March birthstone consists of two chemically unrelated minerals, namely, jadeite and nephrite.

What stone is mistaken for jade?

Materials often mistaken for jade include chrysoprase, maw sit sit, serpentine, hydrogrossular garnet and aventurine. This is due to these gemstones boasting the same deep green colour that jade is most famous for, though each have subtle differences that allow you to identify their true nature.

What is the lowest grade of jade?

Grade 1: Many inclusions, most of which are black. Grade 2: Many inclusions, most of which are white, with some black inclusions. Grade 3: Some inclusions, all are white or light coloured. Grade 4: Few inclusions, all white or light coloured.

Is jade the most powerful gem?

Diamond has a perfect cleavage, so diamond easily breaks when hit from a certain angle. Jade, on the other hand, is the toughest gemstone, even though it's only as hard as dust with Mohs scale of 6-7.

How can you tell if jade is high quality?

How can you tell if jade is nephrite or jadeite?

Jadeite comes in a broader range of colors than nephrite which only comes in green, white, and yellow. However, jadeite mainly has varying shades of green that range between apple-green and emerald. Jadeite's luster appears more oily, while nephrite luster is vitreous or glassy.

What is the color code for deep jade?

Jade is a dark yellowish-green color with the hex code #00A36C, first used as a color term in Spain in 1569.

What colors are Japanese jade?

In Japan, jadeite was already known since the Jomon era, in 3500 BCE. Enthusiasts of jadeite appreciate its vivid variety of colors including red, orange yellow, green, violet (lavender) and black. (Note: while blue jade is not found in Myanmar (Burma), very small quantities of blue Guatemalan jadeite have been found.)