print email comment close Online Tours: Chinese Jade URL: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours/asia/chinese_jade/chinese_jade.aspx Description: "This tour illustrates examples showing the development of Chinese jade from around 5000 BC to the modern period." It notes that "[j]ade has always been the material most highly prized by the Chinese, above silver and gold." Features images and descriptions of carved jade artifacts from various Chinese dynasties, and brief information about jade (which "refers only to nephrite and jadeite"), and where it was found in early Chinese history. From the British Museum. Publisher: The British Museum LII Database Information: Record 25730 created by Jennifer English on 03/17/2008 Last modification on 03/18/2008 Published: 03/27/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25730