Lavender Jadeite Jade Bangle 54mm, Icy Size:54mm and jade rarely wears one

and jade rarely wears one

Here the lavender holds most of the circle and the green enters through a soft mauve middle ground

engraved on natural jadeite formed over millions of years

A borrowed shape in an unfamiliar stone

The material is unusually translucent: hold it to the light and it glows through

Lavender Jadeite Jade Bangle 54mm, Icy Size:54mm and jade rarely wears oneLavender is the one jadeite colour that never arrives evenly it settles in wisps and pools instead of filling the stone. On this bangle the violet gathers in soft drifts against a near white ground, and because the bar is a slim round section you see each drift twice: once as colour on the surface, once as light carrying it through from the far wall. Nothing is carved. The colour and the way light crosses it are the entire piece. Material: Natural