Still Water Cabochon
$5,900
Grace and balance. The colour is even, the form is old, and nothing has been added that the stone did not ask for.
In Eastern aesthetics, restraint is not the absence of a decision. It is the decision.
韵 (yùn) is a word that resists translation. It describes the quality a thing has when every part of it is in proportion to every other part — the resonance left after a note has been struck. It is what a critic means when they say a painting has air in it.
The Harmony collection is our most classical. Even, saturated green in the four forms that jade has taken for centuries: the bangle, the cabochon, the pendant, the bead. We change nothing about these shapes because centuries of wear have already solved them. Our work is in the stone selection and in the millimetre.
The Pieces
Five in this release
Balance Bangle
$6,800
Quiet Lake
$4,200
Evening Lilac
$3,750
One Breath
$2,480
On Proportion
A bangle is a measurement
before it is a design
A classical round bangle has three dimensions that matter: the inner diameter, which must clear the widest part of your hand; the bar width; and the depth. Change any one and the piece stops sitting quietly on the wrist.
We cut to eight standard inner diameters between 50 and 60 mm and finish each to within a quarter millimetre. If you are unsure of your size, we will send a paper gauge before you buy.
Even colour, read wet and dry
Saturation should not pool. We assess every Harmony stone under daylight and again under water, because water flatters jade and we would rather be disappointed early.
Fine grain, no visible structure
Held at arm's length in raking light, the surface should show no crystal boundaries. This is the difference between a stone that glows and one that merely shines.
Untreated, always
Grade A only: no bleach, no polymer resin, no dye. Treated jadeite looks convincing for a decade and then does not. Each piece carries an independent certificate stating the same.