How good is your jade carving?

Jade is judged by its "type, water, color, texture, and workmanship". Among them, "type, water, color, texture" refers to the quality of the jade itself, and is also the most talked about. While workmanship refers to the craftsmanship of jade. The quality of workmanship determines whether a piece of jade will be wasted or icing on the cake, or even turn decay into something magical. It can be seen that craftsmanship is very important for a finished jade product. So how should we view jade carving? What is considered good?

1. Round Sculpture

A round sculpture, also known as a three-dimensional sculpture, refers to a non-compressed three-dimensional sculpture that can be appreciated from multiple directions and angles. Since round sculptures are extremely three-dimensional, they require the sculptor to carve from all directions, including front, back, left, right, top, middle and bottom, which is a great test of the jade carver's skill level. The content of the round sculpture can be people, animals or still life, usually playthings and ornaments.

2. Relief

Relief refers to the process of shaping or carving an image on a carved flat base by compressing the thickness while maintaining the original length-to-width ratio. The shape outline is similar to that of a painting, with varying degrees of concavity and convexity and no restrictions on form. Relief works are mainly appreciated from the front. Depending on the degree of compression, relief can be further divided into shallow relief, medium relief and deep relief.

Bas-relief is to remove a layer of equal depth from the blank space outside the designed image outline, so that the image can be slightly raised and slightly undulating.

The middle relief adopts another form of carving. It mainly makes the outline by subtractive method, but the protrusion of the carved object is higher and the distance between its highest point and the ground is larger. Therefore, medium relief is also the most widely used carving method.

The thickness of deep relief is the same as or slightly thinner than that of round sculpture, and the carved object shows stronger ups and downs. If it were not for its connection to the background from behind, the high relief could almost be treated as a sculpture in the round.

3. Openwork

Openwork carving, also known as hollow carving, is a further development of relief carving. On the basis of relief carving, the background part is hollowed out to make the outline of the carved image clearer, reflecting the delicate and exquisite artistic effect. Openwork carving adds layers to jade carvings, with patterns and scenery interlaced up and down, and scenery at different distances. However, the craftsmanship is complex, the production is difficult, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the artistic effect is the best.

4. Color

Color matching refers to utilizing the natural color and texture of jade and applying carvings that are suitable for the jade material. As a special form of jade carving, Qiao Se can make the shape and dark color of the work harmoniously unified, making the work more vivid and lifelike, giving people a lifelike and vivid feeling, and is deeply loved by people all over the world.

5. Turning waste into treasure

The purpose of clever use of waste materials is to cherish jade resources, reduce the cost of works, and use scraps to create jade carvings with the same or higher value than finished jade materials.

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