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Re: Re: Ox Carving (Jadite?)
Posted By: Anita Mui
Posted Date: Feb 14, 2008 (01:37 AM)
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Dear Joel

You may use stainless steel (unsharpen part) knife to do scratch test, jadite will leave no scratch.

The water buffalo was the most important animal in Chinese agriculture. Buffalo comes with lingi fungus of immortality and coin? I think it is a pun for wealth, success and longevity.

I said it is new because this baffalo has coin, I have never seen buffalo comes with coin. Coins mostly come with three-legged frog and mouse.

Jade is easy to fake, but very very difficult to authenticate. Because of its hardness, the main stream of the art of the period may be not to much represented on the jade art, and jade alters very little, 3-4000 of years may be as good as yesterday made.

Many hungry wolves, dishonest, fake sellers are all round the world, especially on the net. They only focus on (fake) surface alteration, but none of them have correct material of locality of nephrite of the period of Chinese art as well as style of the period. They are weird, oddly made from cheap altered stone.

If you want to collect because of its beauty, not for profitable future, It will be very much recommended hobby. You may start to collect white nephrite first, and avoid withening and rashes (any lumps, flakes, raised up lines) on the piece. Pls keep collecting clean and clear.

Pls read the folowing links:-

http://www.asianart.com/articles/hoffman/index.html

http://www.asianart.com/phpforum/subforum.php?method=detailAll&Id=21764&sfid=4

Have fun
Anita Mui




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