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Subject:Re: BI-Disc
Posted By: Dave Fri, Jan 16, 2015
I suggest international famed auction house catalogues like Christies and Sotheby's. You can also check out official catalogues from major museums in China, Taiwan, Europe and The US famous for having good collections of Chinese archaic Jade. Beware of dubious material though, plenty of books reviewing fake collections as genuine, I cannot stress this enough.
Hetian White Nephrite, the good stuff, has the amazing ability to remain oily when touched and retains that feature as the piece runs through many hands. Some may ask you to scratch here and there, but I never believed in that method when assessing in person. A fake piece can never be genuine to the trained eye and educated mind. Even within this category, it can be further differentiated into Mountain material, Mountain foot material and those, highly prized ones, fallen into the river beds resulting in a very smooth surface.
Well, I hope you leave it to your children if money is not an issue. Certainly not pocket change unless, hahaha, you've got deep pockets. Do keep me posted if you decide to seek an appraisal from the auction houses.
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