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Commodity illustration: Jade

Category:Precious materials

Jade from China

Standard price
1,000 pieces of eight for 100 kg
Surplus
500 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,300 pieces of eight
Bulk
0.1 Tons

Equivalent to 10,000 pieces of eight per ton

Export regions

Jade arrives as rough white, grey or greenish stone. Its soft-looking lustre emerges with polishing, but the material itself is tough and slow to work.

Chinese craftsmen turn it into ornaments, cups and objects for a scholar's study. Cutting, drilling and abrasion gradually produce the desired shape. Nephrite is central to seventeenth-century jade working. A rough stone on a merchant's counter may look modest beside a finished carving, though much of its eventual value depends on the labour still to come.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 533.

Ludic RPG adaptations used on this page:

  • Goods sold by the 100 kg lot: bulk (house rule).

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.