Large Chi Ling Dragon Amulet in Nephrite Jade, circa 1970, with 14k Gold Bale

This one-of-a-kind necklace features a near-round 13mm Tahitian pearl in an unusual brown shade. Topping it off is a vintage 14 karat gold stickpin set with a light blue sapphire. ...

This funky, one-of-a-kind pendant features an unusual and very baroque green Tahitian pearl. Eytan Brandes played up the pearl's unique silhouette with vintage components -- rose ...

This one-of-a-kind choker features a great new bale design by Eytan Brandes. Here, his box bale shares the stage with a knockout boulder opal from Broken River Mining...

This adorable hummingbird -- about a third the size of a real hummingbird -- came to us as a bale pendant (which was, we believe a conversion from a brooch), but we converted it to a fixed pendant and added a soft, just-thick-enough franco chain. The hummingbird is 18 karat gold with shimmery blue and green enamel and a tiny ruby...

This groovy pendant was originally a groovy brooch. To convert it, Eytan Brandes removed all of the pin hardware except for the hinge and enough pin to...

What to do with a little 14 karat frog that's been hopping around the store for so long no one remember where he came from? Answer? Attach him to the kind of gemstone a frog will love: a big drop-shaped faceted cabochon of moss agate. This is a type of quartz with a white or clear body color, but shot through with fern-link green inclusions (mostly made out of manganese and something called hornblende, the description of which is so geoscience-y that we just don't want to go there). This chubby little frog has diamond eyes (about 0.01 carats each) and that sweetly contented expression that makes frogs so lovable, despite the fact they live in swamps and don't really seem to be all that sociable toward humans. We can dream, can't we? The stone is wrapped in a 14 karat gold frame made from a hand-sculpted wax mold by Eytan Brandes. The bale, made from hand-pulled 14 karat gold wire that's been artfully banged about to match the gold frame, is big enough to accommodate most chain hardware, but we're including the pearl, gold and moss agate necklace...

Subtle and achingly beautiful, this antique hand-carved jade pendant depicts a feline curled in contentment. The carving was most likely created near the turn of the previous century (circa 1899) though it could be older. The jade is white nephrite, among the most prized varieties of jade and known more commonly as "mutton fat...

AMULET PENDANT WITH FIGA Spain, c. 1620–1630 Jet, silver, and enamel Weight 60.7 grams; dimensions 85 × 49 × 18 mm Large pendant in the shape of a hand carved from jet with a clinched fist in the figa (Spanish higa) gesture. In the palm of the hand is a heart carved in relief and on the back a six-ray star in a circle. The silver mount covers the wrist like a cuff and is decorated with a frilled border, and on the front with collet-set bosses with silver C-scrolls against blue enamel; on the back is a roundel in relief with floral motif. Domed base for the pendant loop in pea-pod form. The figa (also fica or higa) represents an age-old symbol of protection against the evil eye and other demonic threats. Its origins were pagan and buried deep in antiquity. Roman examples, such as one found recently in an archeological excavation in London, also make it clear that the protective qualities are based in a sexual symbolism–particularly the power of the phallus. The Roman bone figa/phallus in effect represents the phallus twice; that is, the gesture made by the figa hand is generally explained as fingers representing the female genitalia (vulva) penetrated by the phallus of the thumb. But other interpretations are less specific, including explanations that the left hand is the feminine principle, and the right hand is the masculine. In Spain, jet figa are common; we see one in the portrait of Anne of Austria the infanta (p. 75). That is not to say that the objects are not sumptuous or treasured. Jet was a very valuable material, and in many examples like this one, the figa is embellished with beautiful enameling or is even gem-studded. Comparable objects occur in equally sumptuous materials such as rock crystal. The enameled setting allows a dating of these objects that otherwise might prove difficult, given that the production of such objects in Spain is so consistent over centuries. Indeed, there is another, even more elaborately carved example in this collection, attached to the “magic belt” (no. 9). That example may belong to an earlier group. That figa includes deeply excavated carving, including on the upper surface, an M-shaped design that Walter Leo Hildburgh links to the heart shape (as it occurs more explicitly on this example). Hildburgh argues that its presence is especially common on these objects and that it originally represented the Sacred Heart of Mary...

From our extensive Jade collection......This master piece is certified natural nephrite jade "Mutton Fat Jade" The certificate is from a renown Hong Ko...

This master piece is certified. This piece is not only a true Mutton Fat white Hetian Jade, it is also carved by a master jade carver. Look at th...

This dark green (almost black) nephrite jade pendant is inscribed with a brief poem about spring. The text — 泛好 红时春 万辰 风 象翠沐 新绿 雨 — which would appear to be an ode to the cleansing, ...

Please check out the HD video! This master piece is certified by 2 laboratories. This piece is not only a true Mutton Fat white Hetian Jade, it is also carved by a master jade carver. Look at the carving of this beautiful lady. it is out of this world. The lines, the proportions and the depth of field is amazing. It also has superb "hand feel". Master 于士榮 is well know and famous in the carving and art community. You can google his name to see some if his works and the many international awards that he has won. (Sorry it is only in Chinese) The rarity of this is of two factors. One is finding the material to carve. Mutton Fat white jade...