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While nephrite jade is most well-known for its shades of green in most of the world, it comes in a very wide range of colours. Among the more underappreciated tones that it can take are various hues of grey - a tone that seems less than exciting, but actually serves as a perfect complementary colour...

Pale of hue and richly spotted, this lovely, lightweight kokopu disc pendant sports pale lemony background tones augmented by contrasting patches of light green, with a rich smattering of kokopu spotting in russet, brown and black hues. Glossy to the eye and silky to the touch, it's a pleasure both...

A simple freeform pendant carved from a lovely cobble originally sourced from the Hokitika River, this lovely pendant showcases a beautiful blend of dark green and foamy frostedness that's reminiscent of broken wave-wash retreating from the shore. Carved into a simple freeform to use as much of the...

Carved from a pale Marsden flower jade, this opaque pendant measures in at 80 mm long by 20 mm wide and has an almost tongue-like quality to its form. A good piece for everyday wear, its pale tones can fade into the background against other pale colours, or can stand out strikingly against bolder ba...

Coming from only a small region on the Hokitika River, this variegated bowenite showcases white veins of bowenite through the more common blue-green bowenite base material. It has a slight degree of translucency, but is most notable in this example for its bold and striking juxtaposition of tones. M...

An exquisite sculpture carved from a slice of an Arahura River inanga jade boulder, this outstanding piece represents the Zhar-Ptitsa or firebird of Russian and Slavic mythology: the ultimate backhanded fulfiller of wishes and dreams. Though it looks like the mythical Phoenix, Zhar-Ptitsa is a very...

Carved from a natural pebble of dark green kawakawa jade found in the Hokitika River, this simple yet elegant trigonal pendant showcases an striking array of lighter flower patterns against the more usual dark green shade for which this colour-typing of New Zealand nephrite jade is best known. Its f...

Carved from a large cobble of New Zealand flower jade, this sculpture presents a daunting message in a bold aspect: the word NOTHING carved in bas relief that rises up 4mm from the surface of the parent stone. But its message, far from being daunting, is a reminder to the viewer of the most hopeful...

A green stone characterised by silvery, feather-like chatoyant crystals in its body, seraphinite gets its name from the likeness of an angel's wings. It's a type of clinochlore serpentine in mineral terms, and is found with some regularity in the Hokitika River area by those who know what they're lo...

Named for the small collection of species collectively known as native trout, kokopu jade is characterised by a paler body tone accompanied by specled spotting like that of these fish. This example shows pale, lemony tones in swirled patterns, interspersed with dappled black spotting that accentuate...

Fashioned from a beautifully translucent olive-toned kokopu jade, this piece takes the roimata or simple tear-shaped pendant and makes it that little bit more interesting by moving its base off to one side and curving its body ever so slightly. Measuring in at 73mm long and 29mm wide at its widest p...

Similar in shape to the more oval roimata-style pendant, this piece takes its form from that of a beanpod, curving off to the side rather than simply hanging straight down as most such pendants do. It's carved from a very translucent, olive-toned piece of nephrite jade found in the Arahura jade fiel...

The soft, pale tones of the jade known as auhunga aren't often seen outside of a Maori community, where the stone is quite well respected. This lovely piece of auhunga was found in the Hokitika River, and has been carved to create a form known as a maripi-niho, or tooth-bladed knife. The stone sport...

A beautiful piece of light green, frosty-patterned kokopu jade found in the Kokatahi River by our carver, this pendant has been thinned down to produce a lightweight freeform pendant that retains most of the form of the original pebble from which it was carved. It features a light clear green augmen...

A close cousin to nephrite jade, Serpentine is a far more common stone that is often disregarded. However, as this piece shows, it can from time to time demonstrate some really attractive forms and patterns. This example sports a slight translucency and a swirled, cloud-like pattern in a range of so...

During the formation process, nephrite jade sometimes becomes exposed to higher temperatures than normal. When this occurs, some of the jade converts into a different material called diopside, which can be interspersed with the jade and create vivid patterns within it. This pendant is carved from a...

Vastly underestimated by most people, grey as a colour is one of the few tones that suits itself to wear with practiclly any outfit. So naturally, when our carver got hold of a richly-patterned block of grey jade suited to the making of bangles, they had to devote themselves to making at least one...

A kind of piedmontite schist found in the South Island here in New Zealand, aroha stone is relatively rare and thus seldom seen in jewellery. It is, however much esteemed among the Maori community, who have historically particularly appreciated its bold red to purple colour scheme. Taken from the in...

Sourced from the famously re-discovered Olmec jadeite source in Guatemala, this gorgeously-translucent piece shows the beautiful blue-silver tones of Luna and Princessa jadeites, as well as the orange highlights that the rind of the stones can produce in pendants from which it's not totally excluded...

Seraphinite is a material famed for its chatoyant, feathery forms. It's a formation pattern of clinochlore, which is itself a kind of serpentine - but it can and frequently does occur as seams in deposits of other types of serpentine. This piece from the Hokitika River is an example of that phenomen...

An unusual example of mottled jadeite from Guatemala that nevertheless has a frosty bluish cast when held to the light, this piece suggested the form of a leaf from the moment it was studied. And as its carving made it look ever more like a leaf carved from frost and snow, our carver decided to call...

With its pale olive tones and schillered surface, this pendant is an example of what we call schistose jade - a nephrite jade possessing a layered structure that allows light to reflect between its layers, creating a mild shimmering surface appearance. Such jade is significantly less expensive than...

Known as tangiwai to the Maori, meaning tear-water, bowenite is a stone most often associated with funereal jewellery in Maori tradition. However, many Maori communities actually prized it even more than nephrite jade for its uses in jewellery. Most commonly possessing green and blue hues, very few...

While most bowenite or tangiwai in New Zealand is mostly translucent, there are some examples that generate true transparency. and some locations that are famous for producing this kind of material. This material is from a place in Milford Sound called Poison Bay, which along with Anita Bay is well-...