Collecting Chinese Jade and Antiques: The complete guide for enthusiasts and collectors

A practical guide to Chinese jade and antiques for people who want a method rather than instinct. The book starts with telling real jade apart: the difference between jadeite and nephrite, the checks you can make without instruments — heft, sound, coolness, hardness — and the ones that genuinely need a laboratory. It explains why colour alone says very little, and what actually drives value: translucency, evenness, absence of fractures, quality of the carving. It covers the treatments the market accepts and those it does not, the A, B and C classification, and how to spot a bleached or resin-impregnated stone. A chapter is devoted to reign marks on porcelain and to bronzes, where imitation is the rule rather than the exception: apocryphal marks are not forgeries in the strict sense, and understanding that difference changes the appraisal. It then addresses provenance and paperwork, why a collecting history counts as much as the object itself, storage and display, and the rules on exporting cultural property. A closing section works through concrete cases, the mistakes that recur most often, and an action plan for building a coherent collection.

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E-bog: 4. september 2026