More Mosaic Madness, from the Adriatic to the Great Plains Today I’m writing about ancient Chinese jade and a small, splendid show of the best examples at Throckmorton, the specialist dealer on East ...
GUANGHAN CITY, CHINA—According to a Xinhua report, a workshop where stone and jade were processed has been uncovered in southwestern China, at the Sanxingdui Ruins. The site, thought to represent the ...
Explore Taiwan's National Palace Museum in Taipei, home to the famous Jadeite Cabbage, Meat-shaped Stone, ancient Chinese art, jade treasures, imperial ...
Jade is a beautiful stone that suggests water-like fluidity and kindness. Beyond its delicate yet firm texture, it embodies thousands of years of Chinese culture. One can get a sense of Chinese people ...
Several jade artifacts were unearthed in a sacrificial pit at the Lingjiatan archaeological site in China thanks to a team of archaeologists from the Anhui Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology ...
Archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb in Chifeng and found a 5,000-year-old jade dragon from the Hongshan culture, China officials said. Screengrab from China Daily's Facebook post In the sandy ...
Vase with dragons (Qing Dynasty, 18th–19th century), jade (nephrite), on view in ‘A Passion for Jade’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “His is an example ...
At a Neolithic site in northern China, archaeologists have unearthed a large jade dragon inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. The dragon was one of more than 100 artifacts that have been discovered in recent ...
Jade has been part of China’s art tradition for thousands of years. Jade comes in two distinct forms: jadeite and nephrite. Jade carvers believe that the elements of jade make it something beautiful ...