In yesterday's text, we talked about jasper cat's eye, a few friends are very interested, asked me to introduce how to choose, what is the real market now, and what is the range of reasonable starting price. 
Although I rarely talk about jasper on weekdays, I still have some understanding of this thing because I was not less exposed to this thing when I was purchasing for the company in my early years. If you want to get this thing, first of all, let's not be fooled by the anchors and confused the concept. 
In the professional field, cat's eye gemstones worth 10,000 gold refer to chrysoberyl with a "cat's eye effect", and others with similar optical effects can only be called "garnet, tourmaline or jasper with cat's eye effect". 
And there is a world of difference between its economic value and its collection value. As for the cat's eye effect on jasper, it is mainly due to its columnar crystals growing in one direction, like a clump of fibers. 
This jasper is artificially processed into curved beads and rings, and under the light from the outside, a band of light is refracted on it, which will move with the change of angle, like the pupils of a cat. 
Under the misdirection of some live broadcast rooms, many fans today only focus on the problem of whether the eyeliner on the jasper is fine enough and bright enough, which is why there is a "first-line cat's eye". 
But those who are well versed in this mystery know that the first thing to consider in judging its advantages and disadvantages is whether the structure of the jade body is dense, with no dark cracks, and whether it can reach the level of "vitreous".
Because of the aforementioned unidirectional crystal columns, which lack stress tension between each other, so there are often cracks and dark wounds along the stubble, not only on the rough stone is common in this situation, but also in the bead punching time frequent bursting, even to the final grinding and polishing stage, similar tragedies will occur. 
If you really want to buy a satisfactory piece of this fine product, we also have to see whether its background color is bright, because most of the jasper with this optical effect, its base is mostly gray-green, not very flattering, only a few of the background color is tender, only has the value of collection. 
In addition, it is necessary to identify whether there are impurities and defects, and whether the shape is round and full, so that we can comprehensively evaluate its true quality level. And all this is obviously deliberately induced by Internet celebrity anchors to ignore us. 
Seeing this, all the gentlemen should have discovered that the evaluation criteria for this characteristic category of jasper seem to be different from the conventional Hetian jade, but closer to jadeite or gemstones. Most of the products made from it are decorative women's goods. Under normal circumstances, its reasonable transaction price is far less than advertised on the marketing account, after all, the output is huge!
Generally speaking, the ring face of good quality ranges from a few hundred to two or three thousand, the bracelet is eighteen thousand, and the necklace is one or two thousand yuan. However, Shenyu personally still prefers the kind of jade that is oily, old and ripe, similar to Xinjiang Hetianzi jade, and jasper with high color saturation.
Even if there are some black spots on it, the color may not be uniform, but as long as the carving method is done and skillfully used, it can also make people look relaxed. Writing this, I can't help but recall the jade plate of "Guilin Landscape Map" that I missed a few years ago, and its rich and dripping emerald color is really desirable ......(All from the Internet**).
Start planning for my 2024