Men's | Summit Jade Pendant Necklace

A single panel of Grade A jadeite, carved on one face with a mountain landscape. Pine, pagoda, a boat crossing the water, the moon behind the peak. It is the composition Chinese painters have been working with for a thousand years, cut here into stone.

The carving follows the stone rather than the other way around. Carvers call it qiaose, designing around where the color already sits, so the densest green becomes the mountain and the paler ground becomes the water and the sky. It is the most common technique in jade carving today, and it means this scene could only have come from this particular piece of rough.

The frame is 18K white gold with a Greek key border. The bail is a panther's head set with diamonds, and it is the only part of this piece that is not quiet.

Natural and untreated jadeite (Grade A).No bleaching, no resin, no dye. The green pools and shifts the way it did when the stone formed, which is why no two panels come out the same.