If jade has one definitive form, it is the bangle: a single unbroken circle cut from a single stone, no clasp, no seam, no second chances for the carver. It is also the piece most often passed from mother to…

Ask why jade is worn against the skin, and someone will offer you the old saying: 人養玉，玉養人 — people nurture jade, and jade nurtures its keeper. It is sometimes dressed up as medicine. It is better understood as something truer…

Between the formality of a bangle and the lightness of a cord pendant sits the beaded jade bracelet — the most forgiving way to wear jade daily, and the piece we most often see become a habit its owner cannot…

A ring is the only jewellery its owner sees all day. Necklaces and earrings perform for others; a ring keeps you company — at the desk, on the steering wheel, around a teacup. That changes what matters in choosing one.…

When the occasion is too large for flowers — a wedding, a birth, a new home, a sixtieth birthday — Chinese tradition reaches for jade. A figurine given at a threshold moment becomes part of the family’s story: displayed, dusted,…