Carved Jade Phoenix

Posted in Antiques on 06/01/2008 03:57 am by admin

27Huge China Classical Jade Stone Carved Dragon Phoenix Kwan Yin Buddha statue
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ANTIQUE CHINESE CARVED JADE JADEITE PENDANT PLAQUE DRAGON PHOENIX CARVING
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Chinese old jade carved Beast mask design dragon phoenix figure incense burner
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Chinese old Jade Carved dragon phoenix figure cup
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18th C Chinese White Jade Carved Dragon Phoenix Zitan Stand
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Chinese old jade carved Han Dy dragon phoenix Design Chukuo BI pendant
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Carved Jade Phoenix

Contemporary How Much Value To The Collection Of Agate

In ancient China jewelry wholesale, with the treasure and all kinds of ornamental stone utensils made numerous, agate is one of the more popular one of several materials.

Agate is a colloidal mineral, usually translucent and opaque are two kinds of chalcedony class is. Since ancient times, agate on the most loved by the people, is the earliest human use of one of the seven precious materials. According to historical records, the early United States and Liberia Egypt, people have used sand to create an ax agate, carved seal, making rings, beads and other works of art. In addition, our ancient ancestors used it to produce more daily necessities, such as the spittoon, cigarette holder, bowls and cups and so on.

Agate is widely distributed, almost throughout the world. China's provinces have more of production, among which the most Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces. Ming Dynasty, "Georgia should be of the ancient", said: "Agate more here, South Fan, Western Barbarians also, non-non-jade stone, firm and crisp, quick scratch fixed. Who see bowl light vessels, to sample Van well, grind too thin, not the folder that the stone as well, which figures to shape the most expensive birds. "Among the many colors of agate on, he most valuable red agate. As the saying goes: "No red agate I of poverty," Ming "class submarine did the book," also recorded the "agate from Western who were barbarians agate, red is better."

Today we can see agate drink containers, most of the foreign envoys for the year dedicated to imperial. Such as "Old Tang," recorded, Tang Kaiyuan six years (718 years), Hong States (now the vicinity of Samarkand in Uzbekistan) laid off a special envoy dedicated to Emperor agate cup. Since then, with the cultural exchange between China jewelry supplier, the country also began to imitation, Beijing Palace Museum has a "first come to pass agate Phoenix Cup", the agate cup red stripe texture, pattern on both sides with white ribbon, the modeling for the Kui-feng Chen cup, cup-shaped body for peach-type mouth, bottom of the cup Li Kui phoenix carved image simple, exquisite workmanship, Fung Kui the first one on both sides of the relief dragons, a dragon, has climbed up the cup and the other dragon is struggling to climb. Whole containers full of life, life, imitating a typical Western style.

The first sheep to pass agate cup" as the Tang Dynasty, imitation, it is 15.5 cm long, was excavated in 1970, Xian Ho Ka most exquisite piece of jade, jade is the stunning of the Tang Dynasty as being acclaimed at home and isolated products, are collected in Shaanxi Provincial History Museum. The precious red agate cup used for the material, made by Yu Jiang exquisitely crafted. Variegated agate material was not pure, deep red stripe on both sides of the band, which appears structured, Xianrun cute. Its upper half has shown a circular-shaped lower part for the first animal, the stream sets the gold cap, use only remove the nose and mouth on the animal's first gold hat, cup of wine will be artesian in the vent out. Animal heads on the china gemstone two antelope horn, thick and powerful but the face is exactly like beef, two large ears arched high and slightly restrained. Such cattle may have substantially decreased both the composition of sheep, should be a by Yu Jiang artistic image of the animal, with a personal subjective conjecture. This design not only meet when Xiyu Ren used to drink from a stream in the absorbing way of life, but also meets the drinking habits of ancient people's sense, is indeed both an ornamental and practical value, but also a cultural value of art treasures .

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