A white jade ring carved from a single block: a solid band, domed, a luminous white with a bright polish. No metal, no solder.
On its own or stacked, it goes with all your rings. A stone ring cannot be resized: measure at the end of the day, and if you usually wear fine bands, take the size above.
A white jade ring carved from a single block of stone: a solid band, domed, a luminous white that the light passes through at the edges. No metal, no setting, no solder. The stone does everything.
In four lines
A solid band, carved from one block, with no metal at all.
A luminous white, bright polished, translucent at the edges.
A wide, domed band, smooth on the inside of the finger.
It cannot be resized: this page helps you choose well.
Carved from a single block
This white jade ring has no mounting, no head, no claws. To obtain a band like this one, you start from a block of stone, you drill it, you hollow it out, then you shape and polish the band until it is perfectly smooth. A good part of the block is lost along the way: only the ring remains.
The result is an object of a single material, with no joint and no solder, where nothing interrupts the curve. The inner edges are softened: the ring slides onto the finger and is quickly forgotten.
A porcelain white
The white is clear and luminous, with the glow of a fine porcelain. Where the band thins out, at the edges, the light enters the stone and turns it almost milky. The bright polish catches the reflections at every movement of the hand.
It is a white that flatters every complexion, from fair skin to olive, and stays elegant from the beach to the office.
What to wear it with
On its own, on the index or middle finger, it makes a statement ring, graphic and understated. Stacked, it slips between fine gold or silver rings, to which its white gives relief. With no metal, it clashes with no other piece.
Its solid band shape makes it entirely unisex: it is worn on a man’s finger as on a woman’s, and even on the thumb in the largest sizes.
Choosing your size, and why it matters here
A metal ring can be enlarged or tightened by a jeweller. A ring carved from stone, never: there is nothing to stretch, nothing to cut. So the size is chosen once, and with care, in the dropdown above the buy button.
Two pieces of advice avoid almost every mistake. Measure the finger at the end of the day, when it is at its largest. And remember that a wide band grips more than a fine one at the same finger circumference: if you hesitate between two sizes, or if you usually wear fine rings, take the size above, just one. Measuring your finger in two minutes.
Wearing it, and keeping it beautiful
Nephrite is the tougher of the two stones called jade: its interwoven fibers absorb the small knocks of daily life. But a ring is the piece of jewellery that takes the most hits, and a sharp knock against a hard surface can crack any stone. Take it off for sport, for DIY, for gardening and for the weights room. Hardness and toughness, the difference.
For care, lukewarm water, a mild soap and a soft cloth are enough. A white shows its glow best when creams and hand sanitizer are kept away from it: take it off while your hands dry. Never ultrasonics, steam or solvent.Care in detail.
Additional information
Stone
Néphrite
Colour
White
Stone shape
Solid band
Motif
No motif
Mounting
None
Metal
None
Setting
No setting
Worn by
Unisex
Paired stones
None, jade only
Mineral family
Calcic amphibole
Hardness (Mohs)
6 to 6.5
Reference density
2.90 to 3.03 g/cm³
Toughness
Exceptional, interlocking crystals
Treatment
Not determined
Origin
Outside Burma, country of extraction not confirmed
What tradition attributes to a jade band
What follows changes register, and I flag it rather than blending it into the rest of the page. Nothing here is demonstrated. These are usages and beliefs, old and documented, that I report because they are part of the history of this stone. No piece of jewellery in this shop is sold as a treatment, and I attribute no effect to this one.
A stone of moral virtueIn Confucian thought, jade is associated with qualities of character rather than with effects on the body: uprightness, constancy, restraint. It is the best documented meaning of all.
The archer's ringIn China, archers wore a thick ring of jade or bone on the thumb to draw the string. Under the last dynasty it became an ornament of rank, worn by men who no longer shot a bow.
The endless circleA solid band has neither beginning nor end. In many cultures that shape has been read as a sign of continuity and commitment, and it is one of the oldest readings of the wedding ring.
The stone of eternityUnder the Han dynasty, princes were buried in shrouds made of jade plaques sewn with gold thread, because jade was credited with the power to preserve the body. Excavation showed that it did not.
Dispatch within 48 hours of your order being confirmed, for delivery within 14 days from dispatch. I keep no stock in reserve, and I will not promise a date I could not meet.
Shipping Costs
€6.99 whatever the destination, free on orders over €47 to France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The exact amount is shown in your basket before you pay.
The Packaging, and Why It Matters
Every piece travels in its own pouch, kept apart from the others. This is not a question of presentation: the hardness of jade is unremarkable, between 6 and 6.5 for nephrite and 6.5 to 7 for jadeite, and the quartz in ordinary household dust sits at 7. Two pieces of jewellery that travel together arrive marked.
Fourteen Days to Change Your Mind
No need to give a reason. An email is enough to open a return; there is no form to fill in. Return postage is at your expense, unless the piece does not match its listing or arrives damaged.
Getting the size wrong is the most common reason for a return in this category, and jade cannot be resized the way a solid metal band can. Two minutes spent measuring almost always avoids it. The size guide.
Lukewarm water, mild soap, a soft cloth. A very soft brush for the hollows of a carving. That is all, and it is enough.
What You Must Never Do, and Why
No ultrasonic cleaners, no steam, no solvents, no heat source. This is not a precaution for show: the treatment status of my pieces is undetermined. My supplier does not know it, and weighing identifies the mineral without telling me anything about a possible resin impregnation. Resin withstands neither heat nor solvents, so every piece is handled as though it might contain some. The information sheet on treatments.
Scratches, and Where They Come From
Jade is tough, meaning very difficult to break: its structure of interlocking crystals resists cracking, and that is what made it usable for axe heads in the Neolithic. Its hardness, by contrast, is unremarkable, 6 to 6.5 for nephrite and 6.5 to 7 for jadeite. The quartz in ordinary household dust sits at 7: that is what dulls a jade, not knocks. The difference between the two.
Day to Day
Put the piece on after perfume and cream, never before. Take it off for housework, gardening and sport, where knocks against hard edges are common. Store each piece on its own, in its pouch. On a strand of beads, the thread wears out before the stone: it gets restrung, and there is nothing abnormal about that.
My name is Jade. French, from Morbihan, living in Tallinn. I choose the pieces and have them mounted: I mine nothing, I cut nothing, and the metalwork is not done by my hand. What I bring is the selection, and with this material that is what decides everything.
I am not a gemmologist, not a lapidary, not a therapist, and I do not claim to be.
I Weigh, I Do Not Certify
Before a listing goes online, I order one example of it for myself. When it reaches me unmounted, I weigh it in air, then suspended from a thread in a glass of water: the ratio of the two masses gives the density, and that figure separates jadeite, nephrite, serpentine and dyed quartzite without ambiguity.
One example per listing, and not every piece. I do not handle the piece that is sent to you, and I would rather write that down than let you believe otherwise. The method, with its three limits.
What I Cannot Know
The treatment status of my pieces. My supplier does not know it, and the scales do not tell me: they identify the mineral, not the resin impregnation. Only infrared spectroscopy in a laboratory would settle it, and I do not have that done. So you will never read “Grade A jadeite”, “Type A” or “untreated” on this site. The information sheet.
Where My Jade Comes From
No Burmese jadeite, and the first reason is legal. Not the one you read everywhere: the JADE Act of 2008 did ban these stones in the United States, but that ban was lifted on 7 October 2016. What applies today dates from 8 April 2021: the US Treasury sanctioned Myanma Gems Enterprise, the state company that controls the Burmese gem trade. So there is no blanket ban, but a US person is not allowed to trade with that entity, and a stone never tells you where it has been. A single supply chain serves ten markets, so it has to hold up in the most demanding of them. When an origin is not confirmed to me in writing, the listing does not state it. My origin charter.
