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Listen to others or trust yourself?

Posted By: Bill
Posted Date: Dec 29, 2007 (02:14 PM)

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Steve:

It is very true that your fish jade carving may be one of a kind and unique. It is also possible that it is indeed very beautiful and shinning like a gem.

In that case you should trust your intuition and simply enjoy the piece.

If you do not believe what members told you in this forum, you should send your piece to a professional jade appraiser and have them dated and appraised the piece for you. You will have the last laugh at us. I heard that you could even send pictures of your piece to Christie and they will look at it for free. I believe Larry would be able to tell you how to do that since he actually has the most experience with jade auctions. If he would give you his opinion on this piece may be you should listen to him. Many members do not even bother to wast their time in commenting on this piece. What did that tell you?

However, I trust Anita and Ernest and even Mr. Zhu even though I didn't know him that well. I also trust myself, not necessarily in the dating part because I am not good enough to do that yet. But just by looking at the picture of your fish, there is simply no way your piece is made of nephrite. The carvings around the sockets of the fish, is simply so poor that this cannot be an "old" piece.

In short, if this piece is not made of quality jade, and its carving is below average. Does it matter if it is unique or one of a kind? If you really want to date it, does it matter if it was made in 1999 or 2005?

I believe you should listen to the advice of Ernest. I did not want to waste my time in responding again to your last message but I understand your frustration and I did read Ernest's advice and I believe is a great advice. You have to make up your mind: should you trust yourself or? You cannot have it both ways.

When you look at a jade piece, forget about the dating or even the authenticating part, because it is simply too hard for us beginners, look at (in that order):

(1) The quality and beauty of the jade stone;

(*any time I see a piece made of high quality nephrite similar to Hetian jade I always pay a lot of attention; the jade should have high hardness (>6), High specific gravity (>3.0), pure color, either white or celadon, no impurities (no inclusions, on cracks), beautiful luster), beautiful sound. Just the stone alone will made the piece worthy.)

(2) The quality of the jade carving.

If both are A+, they buy them if the prices are reasonable. I would not even worry whether they are old or not. You always get what you paid for.

I hope you can make up your mind about your jade fish because you will not hear what you want to hear here.

Bill

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