Hand-carved Buddha with a smiling face carved from white jade with very delicate veining in light green and soft lilac, pink.
The pendant eyelet measures 7x5 mm on the inside, making the pendant suitable for a nice thick chain.
The Buddha stands on a 2 mm thick solid gold plate. Both the pendant eyelet and the base plate are made by hand from 18kt gold.
The pendant was made in 1965 and weighs 8.9 grams, size 2.8 x 2.4 cm, thick 8 mm
Info: The white jade stone was considered the most precious and valuable stone in ancient China. Its value was comparable to that of diamonds and gold in the West. It was highly prized for its beauty and durability, symbolized purity and moral integrity, even indestructibility, and was often used to make so-called jade burial robes for the country's richest and most important personalities.
