YUEDC1 Yue Tongzhou ed: DACHENG JIUCANG YU ZHI. Great Achievements in Collecting the Ancient: Jades). 大成舊藏玉志。岳桐州 編. Beijing, 2021. 4, 157 pp. Colour plates throughout. 29x21 cm. Boards. GBP 120.00 We are told this work was produced for a group of Chinese collectors interested in jades with Silk Road influences and also Hindustani jades with Islamic influence. It is unclear where the jades are held - museums, private collections or both? Irrespective, the jades appear to be of an extremely high quality and demonstrating the above attributes. Some 100 examples are shown. The work has introductions and contributions by people associated with national-level museums and organisations in China. A well-illustrated works showing jades on which still relatively little is published. Subjects: Jade Islamic Art Item 22 in List 210. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?y/YUEDC1.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |