"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

and it was a common motif for jade ornaments during the Ming and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties. Rabbits weren’t only featured in folk art; they were prized by Chinese literati for centuries, with writers ...

“Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900,” now ... Nearby, groupings of bronze with neolithic jade burial ...

Jade has been part of China’s art tradition for thousands of years ... such as the Bi symbol disc pendants that represent the Chinese symbol for eternity. The Bi symbol has a great spiritual ...

What it is: A type of ceremonial suit constructed of jade pieces and worn by royal members ... according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. While ancient texts had referenced ...

"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 ...