Arctic jade Large jasper

Canadian Jasper

Length 120cm, width 162cm, height 163cm

Weight 3610 kg

Canadian jasper is a legend among jaspers, while Arctic jade is the best of Canadian jasper

In the extremely cold area of the Arctic Circle, after tens of millions of years of accumulation and crystallization, and then absorb the essence of heaven and earth, the aura of the mountains and rivers and the jade treasures formed.

The four conditions of Arctic jade: warmth, moisture, firmness and density are unmatched by other jade, especially the toughness is the most of all jade. Arctic jade's ice jade is clean, warm and delicate, dense and hard, lustrous and oily, turquoise dripping green, and its excellent tensile strength and toughness, making it a rare precious jade species and a treasure collected by Yuyou.

Although Arctic jade is produced in the Arctic Circle far away from the land of China, it has a deep relationship with China. As early as around 1885, a wave of Gold-Rushing Chinese immigrants found jade washed down along the river in Canada's Fraser Valley. Europeans at the time did not know the value of jade, so these courageous Chinese from successfully transporting the found jade to China, and a part of these jade from Canada entered the Forbidden City and became the favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi. From 1885 to 1949, Arctic jade entered China through different channels. In the early 1930s, Master Pan Bingheng, the head of the Four Monsters of Northern Jade, used about 200 kilograms of Arctic jade raw materials when creating the unique treasure "Jasper Square Fortress", and the purchase price was 6,000 pieces of the current ocean, which was extremely expensive.

Lot information

LOT No. 1143 Title Arctic Jade

Author--Size--Creation Age--

Estimate 8,000,000-10,000,000 Transaction price RMB 9,200,000