Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Keverne, Roger[Herausgeber]

Titel

Jade

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cultural Chronology Chart -- Jade: A Special Gemstone -- A Chinese Chronology -- Neolithic Chinese Jades -- Post-Neolithic to Han Chinese Jades -- Han to Song Chinese Jades -- The Glorious Age of Chinese Jades -- Post-1800 Chinese Jades -- Appraisal of Chinese Jades -- Jade of the Pacific Rim -- Jade in the South Pacific -- Jade in Europe -- Jade in Burma -- Islamic and Mughal Jades -- Jade in North America -- Jade in meso-America -- Some Advice for Buyers and Collectors -- Jade Collections -- Glossaries -- A Jade Bibliography John Sinkankas -- Notes -- Acknowledgements
• FOREWORD RECUMBENT HORSE Chinese, Ming Dynasty. 1 Length: 3 /2 in (9 em). The formation of the head with its marked convexity of outline resembles that of one depicted on a mural painting in a Northern Song tomb, discovered at Pai-Sha in Honan. Despite its size, this horse has a strong sculptural quality. Worked from pale green jade with light brown markings. t has been said that a single daily issue of a newspaper effort to survey the jade scene worldwide. These volumes such as The New York Times, Neue Zurcher Zeitung or Le were bigger than was necessary considering the amount of Monde contains more information than someone text included (measuring 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 46 cm, and living in the 17th century would have faced in a lifetime. weighing 110 lb (50 kg) together), and Bishop was not Jade scholarship cannot escape the information explosion interested in wide dissemination of the subject. He printed of our century. Our knowledge on the subject of jade has only 106 copies, none of which was for sale, and then des℗Ư been radically expanded in two directions, from the past troyed the plates. The copies were sent to important libra℗Ư and in the present, and a definitive survey bringing together ries, museums and crowned heads around the world. As the latest research from around the world is long overdue