crammed with objects into whose composition this gem stone
entered. It was, I soon realised, so esteemed by all the people
of the country that scarcely a man or woman was without some
Jade ornament. the last two decades the general public outside
China has to some slight extent become familiar with the
appearance of that stone, but a Western fashion in the gem
started a few years ago has been shortlived. And it will come as
a surprise to most folk that there is as much to be said about
Jade as I propose mentioning in the following few pages. shall
speak of Chinese Jade first, and at some length, for that is the
mineral which is so greatly esteemed by the Chinese—although the
name is a misnomer, for most, if not all, Chinese Jade is
nowadays found of the earliest sources of Chinese Jade was in
the mountain ranges of K'un Lung, situated to the south of
Khotan in south-eastern Turkestan. It is said that even three
thousand years ago, camel caravans laden with this precious
material wound their way slowly and lab