| Original Message: Re: Re: More jade - fakes, reproductions, imitations 3 |
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Just a couple more. The first is a jade hound. These became quite popular as objects with the renewal of jade carving in the round during the Song dynasty (about a thousand years ago). They continued to be made well into the Ming dynasty. The one I'm posting here comes from the end of that process (though, again, I've seen virtually identical ones selling at auction as Song, and therefore for five times as much). The Song dogs are more expressive generally, and finer. This is not so much the case of a later carver copying an earlier original, as it is of a traditional subject gradually losing its vitality. It's still quite a nice little dog. And finally, here is the only modern fake I have. It's a version of a Hongshan mask-form pendant from 5,000+years ago. I bought it on a trip to Shaanxi in the 90s. I got it, without having to bargain very hard, for about $50. It's quite nicely made, nice material, nice calcification, quite nice carving if you don't look too closely, but at just over 20 cm in length it's way too big, and it simply feels all wrong because there's no real patina at all. A couple of years later I found a dealer in California who had a virtually identical fake on his/her website for $3,200 (which would be a ridiculously good price if it were authentic). I use mine as a wind chime, and every time I hear it I wonder who bought the one in California. Cheers, Will PS Sorry, the Hongshan-style mask pendant has come out upside down. I've tried flipping it, but it refuses to stay the right way up. I don't understand computers at all! All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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