A detailed discussion on high-quality jade: glass and ice types! ! !

"Type" is one of the key factors in measuring the quality of jadeite. It refers to the coarseness and transparency of jade texture. The best quality is old, the second best is new, and the old quality has better color after processing. When choosing jadeite, one should first look at its color after checking its quality. This is what is known in the jargon as "experts look at the quality, while laymen look at the color."

There are many types of jade, including glass, ice, white-based green, oily green, hibiscus, glutinous, agate, bean, gold hiss, flower green, violet, and dry green. Among these types, the glass type and ice type can meet the collection level requirements, among which the glass type has the highest value, followed by the ice type.

Next we will focus on the glass and ice types of jade, and see how to buy a good glass or ice type jade.

Definition of glass and ice

As the name suggests, glass-type jade is as transparent as glass, with very fine texture and dense crystals. Glass type jade is the best quality. Glass jade has a very intuitive feature, that is, the naked eye can see the fluorescence in the structure of jade, which is what experts call "fluorescence".

Ice jade is second only to glass jade. Ice jade is also very transparent, like ice crystals. You can see tiny cloud-like crystals, without strong reflections.

Key points for identification

Usually, the identification of glass and ice jade needs to be done under a very important premise, that is, the thickness of the two pieces of jade must be the same, because no matter what kind of jade, the thinner it is, the more transparent it will be. When ice jade is cut very thinly, then inlaid with 18K gold, and the brightly polished reflective surface of the K gold is used as the base, it will look like glass jade.

Many people believe that glass jade must be more expensive than ice jade. Is this true? This statement is not comprehensive. For example, the price of very small glass-type flower pieces and ring faces is generally between a few thousand and tens of thousands of yuan, while large ice-type jade flower pieces with full green and full shapes can be worth millions of yuan.

For white glass and ice jadeite, it is very important to determine whether it is ice or glass. Since the price of white glass and ice jade of the same size differs by about 10 times, many people often buy white ice jade pieces as glass jade, thinking that they have bought glass jade pieces for only a few tens of thousands of yuan that others would have to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy. In fact, the white ice flower pieces he bought were worth tens of thousands of yuan.

Collection-grade glass and ice

White ice and glass jadeite, if they are small pieces, no matter which type they are, their value is not very high. If it is glass type, the current market price is only tens of thousands of yuan. If it is ice type, it is only a few thousand yuan.

The white glass type that can reach the collection level are human-shaped pieces, including flower pieces (mainly Guanyin and Buddha), bracelets, human-shaped bead strings and large ring faces. They must be extremely perfect and clean, and the stronger the fluorescence and the whiter the color, the better. The pure white one is more expensive than the one with blue flowers. As for the shape, it should be full, thick and round. The top ones can cost up to several million yuan.

The white glass type does not involve the judgment of color, and the value assessment is relatively easy, which is easier to master for those who have just started collecting jade. In recent years, a large number of junior collectors have entered the jade collection industry, making white glass jade the variety with the largest increase in recent years.

Ice-type and glass-type jadeite with green color are varieties that can fully reflect the charm of jadeite. Those ice and glass jades with full and regular shapes and positive green color are extremely rare. They are treasures among jades and are worthy of collection.

Full-green ice and glass-type jadeite are the most precious, and the large pieces are the best among them. They are extremely rare in the market, and the market price can reach tens of thousands of yuan. Ice-type full-green jadeite is also a very rare variety, and its market price can reach several million yuan. Of course, there is a prerequisite here, that is, the shape of the jade must be full and round.

The aforementioned two types of jadeite, green and full green, are both collection-grade jadeite with the greatest potential and room for appreciation in the future, and are also varieties with increasing demand. In the past five or six years, the prices of large pieces of jade that are glass-type, green, clean and perfect, with full and thick shapes have increased by 10 to 20 times, which is the largest increase among jades.

Other colors of ice and glass jade are also collection categories that are worthy of attention. We all know that jade has many colors. In addition to green and white, there are also yellow, purple, red, etc. As long as the jade of these colors is well grown, it is very worth collecting. It can be said that as long as the quality of the jade reaches glass or ice type, the price will be much higher than that of lower quality. Wan Ruixiang once sold a pair of red jadeite circles with rich and pure color, icy type, and rich and thick materials for more than 150,000 yuan. Violet jadeite is mainly bean-type and lotus root powder-based, while ice-type is relatively rare. Wan Ruixiang collected a piece of ice-grade violet jadeite, which is worth more than 200,000 yuan. In 2002, Wan Ruixiang also sold a violet skull that reached glass grade and had very good fluorescence. The material of this bracelet was very rare, and no similar material has been seen since then. At that time, the bracelet was sold for only 30,000 yuan. In recent years, there has not been a glass-type violet jade bracelet with such good fluorescence. Its value should be over one million yuan now.

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