Original Message:   Re: Re: Re: By its appearance, this could be new Canadian nephrite.

Chatoyant Washington jade. Chatoyantcy is a type of asterism , a phenomena of light being reflected back to the viewer from parallel fibers in the stone. In a cab with it's essentially two dimension character one can align the chatoyantcy while cutting to produce a chatoyant line in the center of the stone , a cats eye. Beads don't do that but you get a unlocalized silvery sheen as in this piece. This was lit from above and below.The Taiwanese chatoyant jade was very famous but I have only seen pictures of it as cabs , never as beads. Economically this makes sense as the Taiwanese cats eye jade cabs were quite highly priced and in great demand. Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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