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Subject:Cannot be a Qing dynasty jade piece!
Posted By: Super Sun, Sep 18, 2016
I probably should have kept my mouth shut because if one has nothing to say about something it is best to keep quiet. But I have been following this "jade" pig post and was amazed that Ernest would even respond to it and you appeared to be so sure with your jade knowledge by telling him that "I (k)now it is jade". May I ask where you got it since you resided in Poland, did you get it from eBay?
IMHO, this jade pig is so grotesque it was not even necessary to decide what it was made of. No true jade collector/lover will display it anywhere. It was so poorly carved, with artificial stains, artificial cracks, and all these unsightly small brown lines all over it. The chance for it to be a 19th century piece which will be a Qing dynasty piece is zero to none. You would never be able to find a genuine piece of Qing dynasty jade piece look this ugly, in this type of material. If the size you provided for this pig was indeed accurate, then based on my calculation (weight/volume), its specific gravity cannot exceed 2.60, therefore no way for it to be either made of nephrite (S.G. > 2.90) or jadeite (around 3.3-3.4), unless your definition of jade is not nephrite or jadeite but instead using the Chinese definition of jade "any stone that is beautiful". But unfortunately the material of this pig was simply so ugly that no one would call it beautiful.
Please forgive me for appearing to be too HARSH on your "jade" pig especially if you are indeed a true jade lover. Every one of us who loves jade must go through a learning period, from a novice who learned from hard lessons obtained from paying too much for some bad jade pieces to a better jade collector who learned from studying authentic jade piece and studied jade books that were written by jade experts, it can be a life long journey. I hope you would not get discouraged but would be humble to learn, not because in the hope that you would be able to discover a "valuable" jade piece by paying peanuts for it, then turning around in making a big profit but because you truly love jade and would want to learn more about it. Of course, since I am not a jade expert, I can be completely wrong, and your "jade" piece can indeed be a genuine Qing dynasty jade piece. In that case, I advise you to send pictures of it to some reputable auction houses for them to take a look. Cheer. Super
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