Collection and maintenance of your ancient jade

Jadeware occupies a relatively large position in the variety of collections, which is inextricably linked with the ancient Chinese love jade. However, the variety of jade products on the antique market is uneven, especially the “gold priceless jade priceless” has deterred many fans who want to collect ancient jade. How to store your favorite ancient jade? Recently, the reporter interviewed the experts of this advisory group on this issue. They introduced the appreciation of ancient jade collections to reporters from various aspects in order to facilitate the exchange of friendship among Tibetan friends.

Jade collection has potential

The Chinese people have loved the history of jade articles for 7,000 years. There are also dozens of different types of jade materials. To understand them in different categories, continuous accumulation and careful observation are needed. From this, it can be seen that the appreciation of jade collections is actually a process of long-term accumulation of knowledge and experience.

What is jade? In the ancient literature, it refers to all the beautiful and glossy stones. The ancients identified jade mainly based on texture color as the basic standard. Jade has been endowed with rich cultural connotations in Chinese traditional culture. From the Paleolithic era, humans discovered jade and drilled it into small pieces. Jadeware has now blended the essence of Chinese traditional culture, making it highly valuable for collection. China's jade materials mainly include Xinjiang Hetian jade, Liaoning Xiuyan jade, Nanyang Dushan jade, Henan Miyu, Shaanxi Lantian jade, Gansu Suzhou jade, and Beijing Jingbai jade, among which Hetian jade produced in the river bed of the Kunlun mountain in Xinjiang The most precious. However, Hetian jade has been continuously mined for more than 4,000 years since the Shang Dynasty era, and its production has also been getting lower and lower. Currently, the prices are skyrocketing, especially the prices of finest white jade and jasper, which have risen several times each year. The appreciation potential of ancient jade collections can be Want to know.

Ming and Qing jade collection preferred

Jade collectors mostly started with the love of jade, and when they learned about ancient jade from books and pictures, they gradually scrabbled in the antique market.” Ancient jade, and can initially distinguish what is Hetian jade, what is Xiuyan jade.Therefore, the magazine collection experts suggest that the ancient jade collection should be combined with theory and practice, first entered the ancient jade collector best from the Ming and Qing jade Began collecting, especially the folk jade that is popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

According to experts, the development history of jade articles in China can be roughly divided into ancient high jade articles (the Neolithic Age, Shang Dynasty, Western Zhou Dynasty, and Eastern Zhou Dynasty), and the Han Dynasty Tang Dynasty jade wares, Song Dynasty jade wares, and jade wares of the Ming and Qing Dynasties had typical characteristics. Among them, the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient and modern jade collection, its incisive, Yang carved, relief, open carving, pretty color, gold inlay is invulnerable, and the lines are smooth, changeable, the appearance of lubrication and delicate, soft luster, workmanship Fine, elegant and elegant, its superb carving skills for the most ancient jade. In particular, the Qing Dynasty jade articles, whether from the material, variety, quantity, processing technology and decorative ornamentation, have reached the height of any period in history can not be compared.

During the 20th to 24th year of Qianlong, with the smooth flow of Hetian jade stones, it also caused a large number of Hetian jade materials to flow into the private sector, focusing on Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, and Shanghai. At the time, Suzhou's special lanes brought together many skilled craftsmen to create outstanding jade artifacts that were difficult to count. At that time, Hetian jade became popular, and Jane had not been able to allow jade materials in other places to get involved. For this reason, there are still many small pieces of jade scattered in the people. Among them, animal play animals account for a large number of people, such as people, horses, deer, pigs, rabbits, fish, fish, crickets and so on. Followed by all kinds of decorations, bracelets, ç¿Ž tube, rings, rings, é’—, ç°ª, and carved jade tablets. Appliance utensils pens, seals, crutches and so on. Because of the low quality of these small pieces of folk jade, they are often disdain for large collectors, and their prices are not very high. Therefore, for the collectors who started to experience ancient jade, they cannot but say that this is a short-cut for collectors to understand jade. .

The expert advisory group introduced that careful observation of the Ming and Qing dynasties will reveal that compared with the Qing dynasty, the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty only used several different aspects, such as the coarseness of the knife, and the early Ming dynasty had apparently retained the jade carving style of the Yuan Dynasty. In the same way, the jade carving style of the Western Zhou Dynasty was changed by the Shang Dynasty, and the Yin Shang jade ware was influenced by the Longshan cultural style of the Central Plains. The Longshan culture was formed by the combination of the northern Red Mountain culture and the southern Liangzhu culture. This is also a common sense that must be mastered by beginners to collect and appreciate jade.

Fine-grained identification of authenticity

Jade has different colors, generally pure and bright and beautiful as excellent products. The ancients identified jade in five colors: white, blue, yellow, green, and ink. The classification of jade for jade has become a common understanding of jade. Therefore, the color of jade is the main basis for judging the authenticity of jade. In ancient jade, the color of jade is rich and colorful, and it is also treasured by connoisseurs.

According to reports, ancient jades were buried underground for a long time. Due to the effects of temperature, humidity, and the effects of various substances, they were known as ochre. The yellow python is called the earthworm, the white is the otters, the green is the copper gong, the purplish red is the blood stasis, and the black is the mercury hydrazine. For the purpose of realizing unreality, antiques often use artificial imitation methods to change the color of jade and gain high profits. The methods of imitation are various and difficult to identify.

Experts from the newspaper's collection and advisory panel introduced that the jades are generally imitations of small pieces of jade implanted into the leg of a goat. After a few years, they are taken out. Therefore, the surface of the jade will form bloody filaments, such as old jade silk. Commonly known as "Yang Yu", this imitation jade is characterized by a slightly dry jade.

In addition, there are several common methods for copying 沁:

1, the texture of the soft jade with ebony boiled, and then use the oil method, commonly known as "Meiyu."

2. Mix the jade with the iron filings and bury the vinegar in the ground. A few months later, the surface of the jade was etched with orange peel from iron scraps, mixed with earth spots and dark red rust, commonly known as “Saiyu”.

3, through the barbecue jade to make the color white to fill the ancient chicken bone white, chicken bone jade and jade compared to the surface of the fire has a fine crack.

4, "oil" color jade, the color infiltration of jade muscle, this pseudo-color in the sky when the color is more fresh, sunny, slightly cloudy.

Grasping the above methods, and carefully comparing the ancient jade to the hand, you can gradually grasp the characteristics of the ancient jade, and you can also have more "eyes." At the same time, often observing the dynamics of the jade market, we can avoid “taking medicine” to the maximum extent and suffer economic losses.