PROVENANCE: from Lynchburg, VA Private collector. Measurements: White Jade Height: 2.8 cm, Diam.: 3.2; Green Jade Height: 2.8 cm, Diam.: 3.4 cm, Weight: 96 g Set of Chinese Qing Dynasty White & Green Jade Carved Thumb Rings. Carved in round open lip, short cylindrical body, elegantly fit in ring holder and dome lid. The body carved in a gilt color with Chinese calligraphy lettering inscriptions poems, followed with artist's signature and iron-red seals. The texture and moisturizing, glossy quality. Which attracting unceasingly admiration. Jade is precious because it is rare, and because the quality of jade corresponds to virtue. It relates to such virtues as benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, propriety, loyalty, and trustworthiness, and it also corresponds to the ways of the heaven and earth.