How to choose colorful jade carvings? You must know these 5 tips

As the saying goes, "If jade is not carved, it will not be made into a useful object." A piece of natural jadeite raw stone, no matter how rare it is, is still a primitive, uncarved piece of stone. We need to realize its own value through craftsmanship.

Jadeite of good quality needs carving to make it more beautiful; jadeite of slightly lower quality can also have its value enhanced through carving. Carving jade is equivalent to avoiding its flaws and magnifying its beauty.

Traditional jade carving themes attach great importance to the expression of "meaning". Generally, the appropriate themes are selected based on the color and water quality of the jadeite itself, and the art is applied in accordance with the material and the shape is taken accordingly. Combining jade carving with traditional Chinese culture can well release the aura of jade and show its most pure and beautiful side. Jade combines the connotation of China's excellent culture and thought, and also has more artistic vitality.

There are three commonly used techniques for jade carving: round carving, relief carving, and openwork carving.

Round sculpture, also known as three-dimensional sculpture, is a technique of carving the original stone from all directions from front to back, left to right, top to bottom. It can make the work very vivid, realistic and expressive, with a full sense of three-dimensionality. It particularly requires the unity of all angles and directions of the work, so that the viewer can have an all-round "perspective" experience.

As the name suggests, relief is a carving technique that makes the image of the work float on the surface. It is a very common technique in jade carving. According to the height of the floating image, it is divided into "high relief" and "shallow relief". The relief uses different angles of concave and convex surfaces to give the work a very strong sense of space and three-dimensionality.

Openwork carving, also known as hollow carving, is a special technique interspersed between round carving and relief carving. It uses the means of carving, hollowing out and digging out to remove the empty parts other than the image, making the whole look very transparent, flexible and with a sense of space.

Through the combination of the above-mentioned quality, color and carving, the jadeite raw stone has been halfway improved to become beautiful, and only the last step is left to complete the task. The last step is also very important, which is polishing. If polishing is done well, the gum texture of jadeite can be brought out, but if polishing is done poorly, the lines will disappear.

To sum up, if you want to select jadeite pieces with collection value, you need to consider five points: color, water quality, meaning, carving and polishing. After reading to the end, have you mastered it?

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