Chinese Nephrite Jade Carved Dragon Elephant Pot 15C Start Price USD 249.99 Current Price USD 249.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 11, 2008 End Time Friday, November 21, 2008 Location China See more about 'Chinese Nephrite Jade Carved Dragon Elephant Pot 15C' Description 　 　 Antique Chinese Nephrite Jade Carved Dragon Elephant Pot 15C 　 DESCRIPTION This is an old Chinese Ming Dy Nephrite Jade Carved Dragon Elephant Pot. As you can see the image, the handwork is very fine with incredible detailling. It's  very fine quality piece. This is a great piece of valuable collection, a valuable personal alter or a very good present.  Don't miss out this chance to get it ! Jade is a kind of quality stone and is praised as “The King of Stone”. The green and red of jade are nearly the same as color of the feather of jade bird in ancient times. So it is named as "Jade ". The quality and price of jade is variable in extremely wide range. Chinese Jade comes from the most western point of China in today Xinjiang (Khotan, Yarkand). Since the 18th century, the qualitatively better jadeite from Burma was introduced. Neolithic artisans used to shape the stones to axes, knives and animals.Jade objects belonged to the symbols that the ruling elite used to prove their relationship to heaven.The main component of jade is jadeite, whose chemical formula is NaAl(Si2O6). The color of jade also consists of green, white, yellow, brown, gray, purple, blue, etc. and the color is not even in the jade. The common color is scattering with green strips or spots on the basic color. The green color of jade is formed by the mineral grains of green jadeite, the different form of the green jadeite grains form different form of green, the common are stripe green, conglomeration green, floccules green, even green etc. Green is the key factor to judge the value of jade. Dimensions:  Width(inches) Width(mm) Height(inches) Height(mm) Weight (gram) 4.7 120 6.9 175 860 IMAGES 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 PAYMENT We recommend this method of payment , which lets us receive your payment instantly and ship your item in time. (With the above payment method, We also accept  other methods of payment, Kindly please contact us first.) Ebay invoice will be sent within 8 hours of auctions ending. All payment must be make in 5 days from the date you win the item. 　 SHIPPING & HANDLING Shipping Notes:                                                                                                 　Shipping Internationally EMS. Tracking website: 　 Notice: the EMS company need us provide them the customer's contact phone number (Mobile phone number is best), it is very important to shipper making most correct delivery!!! No worry, we only provide your private phone number to shipper.Your items will be sent out at the next working day via EMS from China. It will take approximately 7~14 working days but usually earlier. Most of our customers received it within 1 week depending on your area. Please let us know when you received the items by leaving a positive feedback and we will leave one for you too! Do keep a lookout for our new items in the coming weeks. We look forward to your next purchase real soon. 　 RETURN POLICY We want to assure all of our customers that we will do our best to make sure your item arrives and in good order. In addition we want all of you to enjoy shopping with us on eBay. If your at all unsatisfied with your purchase you can return the item (no questions asked) within 7 days, after the receipt of your item (Items must be in their original condition), the refund (shipping fees are non-refundable) will be given wherever that payment was made. We do our best to keep in touch during the transaction, We can be contacted via tibethunter71@yahoo.com if you have any question regarding the listing item. 　 Tibethunter Inc.Copyright 1979-2008 All Rights Reserved. Place a Bid!