Jewellery

Infused with ancient wisdom, the Pixiu Red Cinnabar Bracelet combines the grounding energy of Red Cinnabar with the wealth-attracting power of dual Pixius. The Pixiu, an ancient mythical creature symbolizing abundance, works in harmony with the grounding and purifying properties of Red Cinnabar to...

In Chinese tradition, red string is the cord of qi in motion, tied at the wrist through life's thresholds. Through 本命年 (one's zodiac year), through 太岁 (Tai Sui clash years), through any passage worth steadying. The jade donut is called Ping An Kou (平安扣),...

Aquamarine holds the calm of water. Its name means sea water, and its pale blue-green has been carried by travellers for centuries, a stone of safe passage and clear communication. The colour comes from traces of iron held in the crystal, soft and cool,...

A small bottle of obsidian, made to hold the scent you wear. Obsidian is volcanic glass, worn for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone. Here it is hollowed into a vial on a 65cm gold chain, with a secure...

Obsidian, cut into clean geometric facets. Volcanic glass formed when molten rock meets cold air, obsidian has been worn for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone. This version trades the carved figures for a simple faceted form, the kind...

Three monks carved in cinnabar, one covering his eyes, one his ears, one his mouth, beneath a small ruyi cloud. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered...

A laughing buddha carved in cinnabar, an ingot in his hands, hung beneath a six-character mantra bead. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red...

A hulu gourd in smooth cinnabar, hung beneath a small peace buckle. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the day...

Three beckoning cats carved in cinnabar, strung one above the other on a black cord. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets...

A beckoning cat carved in cinnabar, hung beneath a small 福 charm. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the day...

A bar of shungite, faceted and pointed at both ends. Polished, shungite goes from a dull coal-black to something closer to gunmetal, with a soft shine that does not flash. It is the same carbon rock from Karelia that is usually sold raw, here...

A plain agate tablet, orange and red in bands, on a beaded cord. The plain tablet, the wu shi pai, is a Chinese jade form given to travellers and to the young leaving home. Its face is left uncarved on purpose: wu shi means...

A rough crystal, held on the finger by a twist of gold wire. The stone is left as it broke from the seam, uncut and unpolished, so no two are the same shape. Five to choose from: clear quartz, kept for clarity; amethyst, the...

A rough piece of shungite, drilled and hung on black cord. Shungite is not a crystal but a rock, black as coal and one of the oldest stones ever cut for wearing, close to two billion years old. It comes from the Karelia region...

A dragon's claw closed around a glass bead, in antique-finish steel. The dragon and the pearl are the oldest pair in Chinese art. The dragon chases the pearl across temple roofs and robe hems, and the pearl stands for the thing most worth having:...

The five emperor coins, worn as an open band. The coins come from the reigns of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing, the first hundred and fifty years of the Qing dynasty, when the empire was at its most settled. Strung together they have...

The six-pointed star, two triangles interlaced, cast in titanium steel. One triangle points up, one points down, and where they lock together they make a single form. Across many traditions the hexagram has stood for the meeting of opposites: heaven and earth, fire and...

The two-faced Buddha, one face serene and one wrathful, cast in titanium steel. In Buddhist art the calm face and the fierce face are two expressions of the same care. The serene half is compassion, the patience that waits and forgives. The wrathful half...

A pavilion among pines, carved into a tablet of jade.This is shanshui, the mountain-and-water landscape Chinese painters have returned to for a thousand years: somewhere high, quiet and far from the city, kept as a picture of where you would go if you could....

A smooth tablet of pale jade, left uncarved.No engraving, no symbol, just the stone and the light moving across it. Jade is kept close in Chinese homes for calm and continuity, and an uncarved piece makes that its whole argument. The cloudiness inside is...