Chinese Jade Toggle Bead

Fat drum-shaped bead in milky stone, with a hole just big enough for a thread.

This jade toggle bead is from China. Jade has been prized in China for thousands of years, and it was carved into ornaments, ritual objects and small personal accessories. Short, barrel-shaped bead with rounded edges and a wide central hole. The surface is smooth and polished, in mottled cream, grey and tan, with banded streaks across the body and a small chip near the hole. It is 0.75 inches in diameter.

Plain, round and deeply satisfied with its one hole.