GGM251 - NEW BOOK Gugong Museum ed: YU CHU KUNGANG: QINGDAI GONGTING HETIAN YU WENHUA TEZHAN. Jade from Kunlun Mountains: Special exhibition of Hetian Jade Culture in the Qing Imperial Court. 玉出昆岡:清代宮廷和田玉文化特展. Beijing, 2024. 478 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. Colour and b/w text plates. 38x26 cm. Wrappers. GBP 200.00 Weighty catalogue of an excellent and focussed exhibition at the Gugong Palace Museum in Beijing showing 220 exhibits (comprising 260 pieces) of extraordinary and exquisite examples of Qing dynasty imperial jades made with jade from the Kunlun mountains, known as Kunlun, Khotan or Hetian jade. A hugely-varied range - from imperial seals and jade books to Buddhist figure, small carvings, vases, jars - and much more! All illustrated in full colour plates, many near full size, actual size or larger than life, and many shown in multiple views with close-up detail. A good amount of English text, including introduction, prefaces to sections, list of plates and captions to plates. Main text in Chinese. Hard to obtain. Recommended. Subjects: Jade Forbidden City Item 3 in List 213. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?g/GGM251.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |