Gem Lore

Tang Dynasty Gemstones: Silk Road Luxury Trade

Tang Dynasty Gemstones: Silk Road Luxury Trade

Explore Tang dynasty gem culture — the Silk Road luxury gem trade bringing rubies sapphires and pearls, new gold gem-set jewelry aesthetics, Buddhist seven treasures in Tang art, foreign gem...

Tang Dynasty Gemstones: Silk Road Luxury Trade

Explore Tang dynasty gem culture — the Silk Road luxury gem trade bringing rubies sapphires and pearls, new gold gem-set jewelry aesthetics, Buddhist seven treasures in Tang art, foreign gem...

Han Dynasty Jade: Burial Suits & Imperial Use

Han Dynasty Jade: Burial Suits & Imperial Use

Explore Han dynasty jade culture — the jade burial suit tradition with gold silver and bronze wire grades, the Mancheng archaeological discovery, Han jade vessels and ritual objects, the grain...

Han Dynasty Jade: Burial Suits & Imperial Use

Explore Han dynasty jade culture — the jade burial suit tradition with gold silver and bronze wire grades, the Mancheng archaeological discovery, Han jade vessels and ritual objects, the grain...

Zhou Dynasty Jade: Confucian Values & Ritual

Zhou Dynasty Jade: Confucian Values & Ritual

Explore Zhou dynasty jade culture — Confucius's eleven moral virtues of jade, the elaborate jade pendant set tradition, the Zhouli ritual jade system, openwork and relief carving innovations, Daoist jade...

Zhou Dynasty Jade: Confucian Values & Ritual

Explore Zhou dynasty jade culture — Confucius's eleven moral virtues of jade, the elaborate jade pendant set tradition, the Zhouli ritual jade system, openwork and relief carving innovations, Daoist jade...

Crown Chakra Crystals for Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenment

Crown Chakra Crystals for Spiritual Awakening a...

Spiritual awakening and enlightenment are the highest expressions of crown chakra development, representing the genuine opening of individual consciousness to its true nature as an expression of universal divine awareness....

Crown Chakra Crystals for Spiritual Awakening a...

Spiritual awakening and enlightenment are the highest expressions of crown chakra development, representing the genuine opening of individual consciousness to its true nature as an expression of universal divine awareness....

Shang Dynasty Jade: Oracle Bones & Ritual Gems

Shang Dynasty Jade: Oracle Bones & Ritual Gems

Explore Shang dynasty jade culture — oracle bone divination and jade offerings, animal and human jade figures, turquoise inlay in bronze, Fu Hao's extraordinary tomb assemblage of 750 jade objects,...

Shang Dynasty Jade: Oracle Bones & Ritual Gems

Explore Shang dynasty jade culture — oracle bone divination and jade offerings, animal and human jade figures, turquoise inlay in bronze, Fu Hao's extraordinary tomb assemblage of 750 jade objects,...

Neolithic Chinese Jade: Hongshan & Liangzhu Culture

Neolithic Chinese Jade: Hongshan & Liangzhu Cul...

Explore the world's first jade civilizations — the Hongshan culture's pig-dragon pendants and Goddess Temple, the Liangzhu culture's extraordinary bi discs and cong tubes, the taotie cosmic face, and the...

Neolithic Chinese Jade: Hongshan & Liangzhu Cul...

Explore the world's first jade civilizations — the Hongshan culture's pig-dragon pendants and Goddess Temple, the Liangzhu culture's extraordinary bi discs and cong tubes, the taotie cosmic face, and the...