Natural Greenish/brown colored Jadeite cabochon from Asia 17.55 cts)

Description

PICTURES:  Taken inside under a high intensity lamp. Picture #3 with the lamp behind the stone to show any potential buyers what the inside structure is like. The last picture is the bottom of the stone.
ORIGIN: Unknown, but best GUESS is China or southeast ASIA. Cabochon is the Jadeite variety of the two jades.
DYES AND ENHANCEMENTS; Checked out this cabochon carefully with a Chelsea calcite color filter and detected NO dying. Boiled cabochon in distilled water for 2 hours to see if any natural berry dye was used. Water remained clean. Therefore I would have to conclude the stone to be natural and not impregnated with anything to enhance the color.
Dime is for scale only.
Cabochon description; COLOR; greenish/brown colored mottled through out.  CUT; Free form square.  POLISH; Satin finish front/top, unpolished (just smoothed off) back with bezel on the bottom to prevent chipping. ORIGIN: Best guess is China. TREATMENTS: None.    INCLUSIONS and IMPERFECTIONS: None seen.  LOW dome cut, this stone probably used for some sort of inlay work, at one time or another.
Dimensions are approx. Length 21.18 mm   Width 21.03 mm.  Thickness 3.45 mm  Weight 17.55 carats.
Ships to the USA only.