Type A Jadeite Bead Necklace, Icy Full Lavender, 8.1mm

A long natural Type A jadeite bead necklace in icy texture, full lavender (春色) with a blue-violet tone, beads about 8.1 mm, with a rose-gold-tone clasp.

Icy jadeite is fine-grained and highly translucent, so light passes through it with a clear, watery glow. The seller wrote "beautiful color, good texture, juicy": the whole strand is an even blue-violet, like lavender in an evening sky, and the beads are so closely matched that it is hard to find one lighter or darker than the rest. Icy texture makes the purple clear, so with light behind it the strand looks like a string of pale violet water drops, brighter than glutinous lavender.

At 8.1 mm the beads are round and full: dignified worn once round as a necklace, substantial wrapped three times as a bracelet. A full-color lavender strand needs well over a hundred beads of matching color cut from the same rough, which is why it costs far more than a single-color bracelet of the same bead size, and why it suits collecting or handing down.

Every natural jadeite is one of a kind; any fine cotton specks or stone lines in this 8.1 mm full-lavender necklace formed in nature and are part of what shows it has not been treated.

This 8.1 mm full-lavender necklace comes with a certificate, and before dispatch we check once more that the piece and the certificate match. It ships free, insured and tracked, and can be returned unworn with its certificate and packaging within 7 days of delivery.