Preliminary Understanding of Modern Antique Jade (I)

Antique jade, as the name suggests, is imitation of the ancient jade, the line is also called imitation old jade. It should have appeared no later than the Song Dynasty, and perhaps even earlier, and there have been eight or nine hundred years of history.

Now talking about antique jade, there are imitation of ancient jade, there are imitation palace or folk inherited generations of handed down jade; there are ancient jade, ancient artifacts made of the style of jade.

It is more difficult to imitate ancient jade according to ancient jade. Jade Earth, the same few, as the saying goes, thousands of agate million kinds of jade, not to say that its quality (chemical composition) is different, but that its color, ground, transparency, impurities, cracks, brittleness, toughness, luster, hardness, etc. Other physical properties such as the appearance of the different perceptions, there are many differences. The selection of antique jade is the first difficult thing. It can only be similar and cannot be consistent.

Ancient jade buried in the underground for a hundred years, a thousand years, immersed in the underground media, discoloration, deterioration, artificial imitation of the change is difficult. The color of ancient jade affected by erosion is called “dark color”. It has chicken bone white, bloody fleas, mercury crucian carp, and soil pupa. It forms white, red, black, yellow, brown and other different variegated appearances. These complexities The color of the jade can be treated with modern chemical and physical methods to treat antique jade. However, compared with the ancient jade, there are always features of artificial creation and it is impossible to be identical to the ancient jade. Ancient jade unearthed in different years, place, play, wear, after people's touch has produced a sensory effect of the surface luster run, this feature has also caused a problem of antique jade.

The jades of different generations have different shapes, ornamentations, different techniques, different levels of craftsmanship, prosperity, and decline with the times. These conditions form the characteristics and styles of ancient jade, modern people use modern methods. Antique jade, in the process characteristics will inevitably leave modern people to understand the ancient jade and ancient jade production features, often only approximate, can not be like. Do not be afraid not to know the goods, afraid of goods than goods, more fake and inferior, fine copy imitation. Even if they are carefully copied, they can be slightly different from the microscopic ones.

Starting from the above three aspects is the basic method to identify ancient jade and antique jade. According to ancient jade antique jade, probably like the mainstream, can not be exactly like, its material, craft, color is uneven, some can be discerned, some are not well recognized, especially when there is no original contrast, Can only find its flaws by experience.

There are two cases of imitation handed down jade. One is that it was excavated in the very early days after the earth was buried. It has long been reported in the society for a long time. There are blemishes and hand-crushing or reprocessing. The other is that jade has not been buried. Has been circulating in the world so far, some without later changes, and some later changed. For the imitation of the unearthed jade, there are most jades that emulate the characteristics of the times, such as the imitation of the Qianlong jade ware and the imitation of the Zigang brand.

There are also two cases of imitation jade in ancient jade styles. Most of them only know the ancient jade wares of the times and the ornamentation. They just take blocks of jade to imitate them. They are very different from the ancient jade and can be seen with eyesight as modern and many. It is a rough product, and it is not worth mentioning. The other situation is that although there is no comparison of the originals, the imitation jade wares have the style features of ancient jade. There are both ancient and antique jade artifacts, as well as artistic and technological achievements. Modern times include antique jade and modern antique jade during the Qianlong period in the Qing Dynasty.

The history of culture and art in China for thousands of years left behind a very valuable wealth of culture and art. In terms of jade artifacts alone, ancient jade is like the sea of ​​smoke, and crude products and fine products are very rich. There are no crude products of the times. Unearthed can only represent the characteristics of the times, modern imitation is also meaningless, and there are fine features of the times, if applicable to In the contemporary era, copying some of them also has no harm in the overall situation and has economic value. Good ancient jade shapes have been inherited from ancient times to the present, and they have been produced repeatedly. They say that they are dilapidated by jade, that they are commodities, and that they have enduring conditions for their own development, such as Zi Gangpei, Shuang Xiezi, The four-year-old child, the box, the Qiaohu, as well as the antique bronzes, porcelains, sculptures, etc., after at least several hundred years of baptism, only tempered the beauty of the United States, the decoration of the United States, the United States of arts and crafts techniques, and thus has a strong vitality. Yu Zhagang brand imitation in the Qing Dynasty, ** imitation, modern still imitation is an example. "The Complete Collection of Chinese Fine Arts · Jade Articles" received an image of washing. Many jade factories around the country imitated a lot of pieces. Most of them in the process of imitating materials were constructed according to materials, like washing images, not washing images, indicating washing images. The styling is successful and artistically appealing.

In the 1960s, in order to meet the needs of the exhibition, Beijing Jadeware Factory once made a set of jade carvings for the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty Qianlong jade articles, the Song and Qing courts, and folk collection of ancient jade products. These antique jades, including the imitation of the Zizaoka card, can still be plausible if there is no comparison between the originals. For example, white jade ducks, the Qing court is a good material, good demeanor, fine workmanship, imitation is a far cry from. Another example is the imitation of Jasper and Tiger. Its level of styling and craftsmanship is also superior, although many places are inferior to the original.

Jade line is an industry, what the market needs, what to produce. In recent years, the publication of the Jade Art Atlas has provided reference conditions for mimicking old jade, some of which are based on maps and conscientious; some are crudely crafted and deceived; others are changing shapes to win with old intentions. All sorts of phenomena, mixed eyes, to observe these dilapidated jade, to start from its essence. The essence of jade is based on raw materials, modeling (including ornamentation) and craftsmanship. These three kinds of content, with different times, have different characteristics. To grasp this essence can not be tainted by phenomena.