As the top representative of Hotan jade with "white is precious", lanolin jade has always been favored by people, and its characteristic of "white as curd" has also become the highest standard for countless people to collect Hotan jade. However, the market blindly pursuing whiteness also gives countless bad businesses the opportunity to exploit loopholes, resulting in the phenomenon of Hotan lanolin jade mixed with fish's eyes everywhere in the market, which makes consumers unable to prevent. So how do we identify the real lanolin jade? Today, let's talk about how to identify lanolin jade?
How to identify lanolin jade
For how to identify lanolin jade, we should start with the definition of lanolin jade.
Lanolin jade is a category of Hotan white jade, so it is also called 'lanolin white jade'. The ancients described lanolin jade as' white as fat '. Therefore, with this definition, many people simply understand lanolin jade as the whitest Hotan jade, so they go into the trap of merchants and regard some high White Russian and Qinghai materials as rare lanolin jade.
But in fact, 'white' is only one of the characteristics of lanolin jade. The ancients defined lanolin jade as' white as cut fat ', which focuses on the word' cut fat ', that is, lanolin jade should be white as lanolin (commonly known as lanolin), which is also the reason why lanolin jade got its name.
What are the characteristics of lanolin jade
Therefore, how to identify lanolin jade naturally depends on whether it is white like lanolin. So what are the characteristics of lanolin?
Lanolin is indeed white, but it is not pure white, but a kind of white with greasy luster and warm color. This white will show a slight yellow, and the poor texture will also show a slight light gray tone. However, no matter what kind of white, it is waxy, oily and shiny.
Therefore, in the market, once we see Hotan jade that is very white but has no luster and oily feeling, we will no longer call it lanolin jade.
The above is about how to identify lanolin jade. Of course, the basic condition of lanolin jade is indeed white, but pure white is not always lanolin jade.