Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade

Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade
Ancient Old Jade is beautiful semi-translucent precious stone that is denser than other stones and characterized by shiny, smooth, heavy surfaces and distinct sounds when knocked on. The beautiful characteristics of this work of art have lead to its value as a wonderful decorative keepsake, as well as a great collection for investment, due to the fact that the Ancient Old Jade grows in value as it ages.
Archaic Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade was the gem class jade of best quality in Han Dynasty China. But the modern people have never seen it before. It was the only privilege of ancient Emperors' family in Han Dynasty China. The work of art made by this jade was left scarcely and has been seen rarely in this world. Its colour is as that of sheep fat and has oily shining brightness. Its inner jade muscular contents have semi-boiled rice phenomena existing in the natural ancient archaic old jades. Nevertheless the jades carved in Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, and Modern China, have no such phenomena.
It looks like foggy translucent due to oily fat appearance, while white jade looks different in this respect. Its oily white shining brightness is seen with slight yellow light. It's oily and solid, translucent and clean, white and without cracks, just like solidified sheep fat. Its skin has no cheating glass light, thus can be slightly varied after the long-term wear attached to human skin by its owner.
A Carved Archaic Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade Linking Clouds Royal Dragon Pendant 206 B.C. - A.D. 25 Western Han Dynasty China (H 4.4 x W 6.7 x D 1 cm 56 g) was carved with the same Archaic Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade as that used in Western Han Queen's Seal (H 2 x W 2.8 x D 2.8 cm 33 g) collected by Shaanxi History Museum, Shaanxi Province, China.
Even if the Archaic Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade has been kept in water and earth for more than 2000 years, it is only slightly soaked in skin parts and still as smooth, shiny, oily as before due to its solid and dense quality. This is its very precious value never to be broken over thousand years and the reason why it is classified as gem class valuable precious stone.
This work of art has incidentally been soaked in its tail skin part to become "dark brown". Thus it's also a very beautiful jade carved work of art with rather rare Wonderful and Amazing Soakage - A Archaic Sheep-Fat-Oily White Jade Carved Sheep Dragon with Dark Brown Tail existing in the world nowadays.

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