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Nephrite Jade

Bead size / style	Price per bracelet
6 mm	₱999.00
8 mm	₱1,399.00
10 mm	₱1,799.00
12 mm	₱2,199.00

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Material reference

Nephrite Jade · Ugnayang-Dagat

Scientific identity, documented history, and community contexts are presented with sources. TÁWID’s contemporary design interpretation is identified separately.

Material identity

Nephrite jade is a compact, fine-grained material composed predominantly of amphiboles in the tremolite–actinolite range. Its interlocking structure contributes to toughness, a different property from scratch resistance. GIA describes formation through fluid-mediated reactions involving dolomite-rich rocks or serpentinite. Nephrite and jadeite-rich jade are different materials even though both are called jade. [1]

Documented historical context

A nephrite cong in the Metropolitan Museum dates to about 2400 BCE, within Liangzhu culture in China. Its form combines a circular bore with square outer walls and corner masks. The museum interprets the size, workmanship and labour invested in such objects as evidence of wealth and status. Its ritual function remains partly uncertain; those interpretations arise from the form and archaeological setting rather than from a universal property of green stone. [2]

Philippine and regional Austronesian connections

Hung and colleagues analysed archaeological nephrite with electron-probe microanalysis. Their study traced green material from eastern Taiwan into ornaments distributed around the South China Sea. Distinctive ear-pendant forms circulated through the Philippines, East Malaysia, southern Vietnam and peninsular Thailand particularly about 500 BCE–500 CE; Taiwan-derived beads and bracelets also reached the Philippines earlier during the Neolithic.

This is evidence for maritime networks linking material sources, workshops and users. The combination of mineral chemistry, object form and archaeological dating is more informative than colour alone. It supports discussion of exchange involving Austronesian-speaking regions, while leaving open questions about the people, languages and meanings associated with each object. [3]

A Māori comparison

Pounamu belongs to a distinct Māori cultural history in Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Papa records named mere pounamu with histories of particular owners and relationships. Such objects can be understood through transmission and remembered events as well as their material. This offers a comparison within the wider Austronesian-speaking world, not evidence that Philippine jade ornaments shared Māori names or meanings. [5]

TÁWID’s contemporary interpretation

Ugnayang-Dagat is TÁWID’s contemporary reflection on connections maintained across water.

References

1. GIA, “Gems Formed in Metamorphic Rocks,” Gems & Gemology (Summer 2023)
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Ritual object (cong),” Liangzhu culture, ca. 2400 BCE, 2004.52
3. Hung et al. (2007), “Ancient jades map 3,000 years of prehistoric exchange in Southeast Asia,” PNAS 104(50), 19745–19750, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707304104
4. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, “Kura Pounamu Exhibition”
5. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, “Pounamu – Weapons of honour”

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