a curator of Chinese art at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Mass. "There's one Han Dynasty cicada in our collection that's my favorite. This jade cicada is smooth and flat and fits in the ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] A Chinese emperor loved jade so much that he commissioned numerous jade objets d'art from the finest craftsmen, composed more than 800 poems about both ancient and ...

Qi Desan, editor of the magazine China Ceramics Art, said, "The new kind of porcelain resembles jade both in terms of the look and touch." "Real jade cannot be painted since it cannot withstand ...

A rabbit with a glossy ganoderma in its mouth has long symbolized longevity and good fortune, and it was a common motif for jade ornaments during the Ming and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties. Rabbits weren ...

Chinese antiques and his growing up in his father’s antiques shop. Jiazhen Zhang: I grew up in my father’s antique shop, learning to identify porcelain, jade, and other works of art from a ...

"All the stone is old," Knight said, "so you can't use the material itself to date a jade piece like you can with ceramics." For the past nine years, Knight and his fellow Chinese art curators at ...

An antique dealer is bowled over by the understated beauty and rich history of Chinese jade. ART and antique dealer W.K. Chui was mesmerised by jade when he visited the museums in London 20 years ago.

A Chinese White Jade Carved Squirrel and Grapes Group, 18th/19th Century 清十八/十九世纪 白玉带皮透雕松鼠葡萄把件, ca. 1701–1900 ...

"I could not believe how incredible those jade wares were ... where local art teachers introduce traditional Chinese art forms like landscape paintings and calligraphy. UBUNTUNGUMUNTU, a painting ...

Important Chinese Jade Carvings from the LJZ Collection comprises forty-three outstanding works ranging from the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The sale is led by a ...