Our friend (s) not one of the dealers you need to be concerned with they work only in the finest quality jade, the cost of carving is generally...
Not my relatives so no worry there, my wife got a message yesterday from a carving friend telling her about this discovery this is very new news....
This is a “new jade” a quartz based material that has been on the market for a long time mined in XinMi, China that looks very much like nephrite....
Plenty of buyers are fooled now buying treated jadeite sold as A grade, we have a friend with one such example a huge thick bangle my wife is...
It will certainly add confusion and knowing your sources I’d imagine will be important. The up side is a much lower cost alternative so price...
Our friends are excited about a new carving stone that looks just like high quality Jadeite, in the west we only accept jadeite and nephrite as...
Interesting looking piece, I like it.
those I think are not old I have 4 of them. However these 3 may have a little more age but I’m not sure how old? The two hundred flower design are...
interesting link because of the mark I assumed this was later, but the link indicates this is period just lower quality.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
One famous artist I think you could find in a thrift shop if really lucky is Peter Voulkos, his work was anti establishment and might not be...
When I started ceramics in the early70’s most everyone was doing high fire or Raku with some other firing techniques that were less common like...
I bought this at the Stanford museum sale a little over 15 years ago for around $20 mainly because it came with paperwork I imagine the age range...
Thank you for the reply, I do think this could be late 19th century but not as special as the example you posted but likely after the same deity...
Something like this, he’s been doing this over 50 years.[ATTACH]
Well, you know this might be a tough one it looks like pottery you find in just about every school ceramics studio, it is a basic cylinder shape...
Link to moriage resource...
The decoration looks similar to Japanese Moriage slip decoration technique.
It would be good to see the full underside and the attachment between the bowl and the stand, are they attached or just together?
An item from grandfather unknown history, stands 13” tall. I don’t have any other information and have never researched this I don’t know age or...
I really don’t know much about this I don’t know who, why, where or when? It’s at least 60years old and stands 7 1/2” tall and it was packed with...
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