The best in jade: white jade

Ten years ago, when Chinese collectors were active in the international market for the first time, the favored collections were ancestral ancestors who had played with the millennium. They made it impossible for generations to soak into oriental culture. Ten years later, the jade was still capturing its hearts with its restrained and graceful texture. Whether it's palms, small objects that look warm, or a display that reveals the body's cleansing, it reveals the gentleness of the past and quietly becomes the interpreter of time.

On the auction market, there has been no shortage of white jade auctions in recent years, mainly for small and medium-sized royal palms. Due to the scarcity of raw materials and the continued enthusiasm of collectors, the market value of fine white jade has been constantly rising. At this year's Hong Kong Christie's Spring Auction, there were three large-scale anti-Caolong white jade products falling prices are more than 10 million. Such monolithic large pieces of jade are also less and less common. Palace jade is superior in quality and craftsmanship. The reason is that it is different from modern jade processing: Nowadays, there is very little jade material with good whiteness. Jade carvings are mostly used to remove or cover up the flaws of jade materials; ancient materials are abundant and royal craftsmen are out of a certain The provisions of some palace furniture systems do not compromise on the processing of carvings. Therefore, the palace jade articles are not only of high quality jade materials, but are also the white sheep jade that are rarely seen nowadays, and are carved first class. They are the perfect combination of natural and artificial.

As an antique white jade collection, its quantity and market price are generally inferior to those of calligraphy and painting. However, due to its relatively easy-to-identify physical characterization in identification, plus the attachment of the gentleman Peiyu since ancient times, as well as the wide variety of objects, the price range is broad. Characteristics, resulting in a low threshold for entry, value-added, value-added and fun to play, are a good choice for collectors who are just starting out. Before entering the market, more contact with some specimens of jade material, experience summarizing its texture is necessary for homework; of course, for the sake of insurance, you can also start with the contemporary jade carving master new jade small works, starting from the interest to gradually cultivate eye and feel.

Tips 1: White jade is the main category in nephrite, because of pure and white, commonly known as "fat jade", and Hetian jade produced in Xinjiang is one of the best. White jade is usually divided into seed and mountain. The seed is a gem from the mountain into the river. The texture is fine and tight and the toughness is good. The mountain material is the original or white jade buried in the rock body. It is generally irregular blocky, angular and distinct, and the texture is less dense and delicate than the seed material, and the crack is slightly more than the seed material.

Tips 2: The "whiteness" level of white jade divides the test of eyesight, and the traditional division methods are: white sheep fat, pear white, snow white, fishbone white, ivory white, chicken bone white, brown rice white, gray white, green gray, etc. Among them, the suede white material of the seed material is complete and has a hull as a fine product, and the greater the weight of the single rough stone is, the higher the value is. The carving of white jade reached its peak during the Qing Dynasty, especially in Kangan.