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<p>[QUOTE="Phaik Hooi, post: 449358, member: 5831"]found this re: age of jade</p><p>"An old jade professor used to work for the Forbidden City,</p><p>Beijing jade collection section once told me, you need to study the</p><p>Chinese history in order to understand the jade carving. The reason</p><p>is that each dynasty produced certain unique carving technique or</p><p>style and you have about 5,000 years of Chinese history to study. I</p><p>was told again that sometime a jade carving may looks like 12th</p><p>century style but found later to have copied during the 16th century.</p><p>Most of the modern jade carving has better polish, style could be</p><p>copied and technique of carving is quite different because the new</p><p>tools used to do the carving. Technique of carving has improved over</p><p>the years, so you need to observe the modern again ancient jade</p><p>technique. May be you can talk to museum people who handle jade in</p><p>your country?"</p><p><a href="https://orchid.ganoksin.com/t/age-and-quality-of-jade/19176" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://orchid.ganoksin.com/t/age-and-quality-of-jade/19176" rel="nofollow">https://orchid.ganoksin.com/t/age-and-quality-of-jade/19176</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>agree <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Phaik Hooi, post: 449358, member: 5831"]found this re: age of jade "An old jade professor used to work for the Forbidden City, Beijing jade collection section once told me, you need to study the Chinese history in order to understand the jade carving. The reason is that each dynasty produced certain unique carving technique or style and you have about 5,000 years of Chinese history to study. I was told again that sometime a jade carving may looks like 12th century style but found later to have copied during the 16th century. Most of the modern jade carving has better polish, style could be copied and technique of carving is quite different because the new tools used to do the carving. Technique of carving has improved over the years, so you need to observe the modern again ancient jade technique. May be you can talk to museum people who handle jade in your country?" [URL]https://orchid.ganoksin.com/t/age-and-quality-of-jade/19176[/URL] agree :)[/QUOTE]
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