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Beautiful vintage 14 karat gold ring with round, open worked green jade gemstone. A unique flower-shaped ring with flower motif carved jade. A unique ring with large apple green jade. Both the gold and the jade have a beautiful handmade engraving. The jade is engraved in a floral pattern and has some small openings in the gemstone. The US ring size is 7.25 (17,5 diameter). Weight 4.73 grams.
 
In Chinese art, "jade" - known by the Chinese character "yu" - is an ornamental stone used in a wide variety of jewelry art, figure carving and other types of sculpture - in statue-form and relief sculpture. Jade carving has been an important material in goldsmithing since the age of prehistoric art, and still accounts for most of China's hardstone carving. One important reason why carved-jade objects are so highly prized, is because the Chinese believe that jade represents purity, beauty, longevity, even immortality.