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Friday, January 29, 2010

[prayer wheel] Huizhou Three Carvings - buddha jewelry

The three most famous caving styles in Huizhuo are, brick, stone, and wood carving. The three carvings originated in Song Dynasty and reached their peak in Ming and Qing Dynasty. The carvings are mainly used as decorations for civil residences, ancestral temples, arches and handicrafts like furniture, shelter

Song Dynasty
Ink and color on silk
28.4*28cm

By the lotus pond in deep autumn, a female crab crawls on a withered lotus leaf half submerged in water, disturbing the water and causing ripples to form, where the yellowing knotweed, reed, waterweeds and lotus presage autumn. The undulating but determined lines are sure signs of an accomplished painte


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[jewelry] Calligraphy in the Yuan D - dzi beads

Enthusiastically modeling after the ancient masters was the mainstream of Yuan Dynasty calligraphy, which actually suffocated creation. The leading role in calligraphy of Yuan was played by Zhao Mengfu, who was versed in almost all styles: seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script. The Zhao style he created is one of the Four Styles of Chin

Diameter: 38cm
by Du Bingchen

This piece of carved lacquer floral basket plate adopted deep-relief engraving & hollow-out technique. It is careful to be carved many lifelike flowers in the plate. It implies that the garden is full of the beauty of spring.

Du Bingchen entered the Jinxinzhai Studio at 13 to study lacquer-ware techniques with the famous craftsman Zhang Bingzhi. He was quite young when he first started producin


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

[buddha jewelry] TAN Xin-Pei - tibetan buddhist

A male role Lao Sheng player and the founder of TAN Style. He had a sounding reputation. It is said the all Lao Sheng players at his time were following his styles. The imitation of his arias could be heard across the street everywhere. He was a best known, superb to any other names like warlord or famous political figures. His famous plays includes " A Fisher's Rebelling", etc. His descendants follow his style, including his son, TAN Xiao-Pei, grandson, T

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Being magnificent or exquisite, Chinese architecture has formed its unique style. On the Shanghai Expo site, anyone can tell which one is the China Pavilion, Oriental Crown, because of its Douguan shape and Gugong Red. It is a perfect piece of architecture that conveys plenty of Chinese elements.

If the Oriental Crown is an ex


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[jewelry pendant] The Eagle and the Magpie - tibetan bracelets

The Eagle and the Magpie
Lv Ji
Ink and color on paper
120.7 * 62.5 cm
Palace museum of Beijing

At the foot of a sheer precipice, a magpie resting on a bough extending across the painting is startled out of its sleep and extends its wings in an attempt to flee from a foraging eagle that has just landed on the cliff. The branch starts to shake with the sudden movements of the magpie, and the eagle, as if hearing something, turns its head to look but sees only two bees unlikely to appease its hu

Shun Art Gallery locates at 103/208 Loft 3, No.50 Moganshan Road. Group exhibitions and solo exhibitions are planned and held regularly in this 455sqm space, mainly for international communication on contemporary art. We aim at providing chances for Chinese young artists to show works as well as introducing overseas artists. We are also trying to cultivate talented curators via holding exhibitions


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

[stone jewelry] Gilt-silver hairpin with - jewelry beads

Qing Dynasty
Length: 9.5cm
Width: 2cm

The handle of the hairpin is in the shape of gilt-silver lotus receptacles in three layers, with the second layer inlaid with a pearl and the third layer a sapphire.

The sapphire inlaid in this hairpin is big, smooth, lustrous and of top quality.

Founded in 1960 and originally located in the national historic landmark, Zhong Wang Fu palace complex, Suzhou Museum has been a highly-regarded regional museum with a number of significant Chinese cultural relics. A new museum designed by world famous architect I.M.Pei was completed in October 2006, covering over 10,700 square meter and located at the cross of Dongbe


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[tibetan silver] Beijing Lacquer Carving - tibetan silver

Beijing-carved lacquer ware is one of China's traditional arts and crafts. The lacquer ware is decorated with exquisite engravings, has a radiant luster, elegant shape, and the pieces are usually resistant to humidity, erosion and heat. The technique involves applying a natural lacquer on a wooden surface, then engraving delicate designs on the lacquer.

The ancient craftsmanship of carved lacquer originated in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in today's Sichuan a

Wine vessel, Late Shang Dynasty
Height: 20.1cm
Length: 16.8cm

Two high mushroom-shaped pillars stand on this Jue' s spout. There are ridges on both sides of the belly and a beast mask handle on one side, with three prism-shaped feet pouting. The vessel has a two-character inscription " Ya Qi " and thus has its name.

This Jue's spout and tail as well as parts under the mouth are embellished with plantain leaves. The b


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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

[jewelry necklace] Prevalence of Scholar Pai - tibetan rings

The Yuan Dynasty is the first feudal society set up by minorities. The central government of the Yuan Dynasty divided the people into four classes, among which people inSouth Chinawere the lowest. In order to express their inner anger, men of letters painted a great number of pictures. Meanwhile, due to the unification of the whole country, and further cultu

Listed among one of ten ancient musical pieces, Autumn Moon over Han Palace actually does not have a very long history. Not concrete and definite in theme, the music is generally believed to express the hidden bitterness and depression suffered by palace maids in the imperial palace. The urheen version and zither version are forms of performance now widely in circulation.
 
Originally the firs


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Monday, January 25, 2010

[wholesale jewelry] Shanxi Dough Sculptures - buddha jewelry

The Shanxi people, famous for their rich variety of dishes made from wheat, aside from making various food with dough, also mold it into various "dough figures" to admire as well as for good luck. They send them to friends as gifts to extend lotions or pay tribute to gods. The dough figures are therefore also called edible artistic works.

The typical dough sculpture of northern Shanxi Province is the pudgy baby. The dough is fermented and steamed to depict the crawling, running and love

Kangxi Period, Qing Dynasty
Height: 25cm
Diameter of mouth: 16.5cm
Weight: 4500g

With a lion knob on top, the bell is ringed with a line of cloud head patterns and two lines of fret patterns. The top of the bell is adorned with fret patterns and the bottom is adorned with one-legged dragon patterns, with beast-face patterns in between.

The bell is a ritual and musical instrument of ancient China. In the Qing Dynasty, a bell was in most cases pla


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[tibetan pendants] A Large Pale Celadon Jade - jewelry pendant

Qianlong period, Qing Dynasty
Height: 23.4cm

Exquisitely carved in high relief with SHOULAO carrying a peach in his hand, followed by two assistants balancing a jade musical stone suspended from a branch, climbing a mountain path towards a pavilion near the summit, the reverse with a deer under a pine tree on a rocky outcrop abo

Ivory carving is an old art in China dating back to prehistoric times. From the ruins of the Yin Dynasty capital of 3,700 years ago knives and rulers made of ivory have been unearthed. The Record of the Warring States, a history written 20 centuries ago, tells of Mengchang, an aristocrat of the State of Qi, who "left his homeland for a tour abroad and, when he arrived in the state of Chu, presented an ivory bed...The bed was worth a thousand pieces of gold; the


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Sunday, January 24, 2010

[coral jewelry] Kunqu opera masterpiece: - tibetan ring

"On the Pretext" (Jie Cha) from The Water Margin

This scene is drawn from one of several plays based on The Water Margin, one of China's most famous classical novels that theatregoers may know from the stories (and secnes!) about Wu Song of Lin Chong. The story takes place in the 12th Century (Song Dynasty), the novel was written in the 14th Century (late Yuan-early Ming Dynasty), and the play in the late 16th Century (Ming). T

In the early period of jade culture in China, almost all jade ware was used as daily articles such as jade needle and jade buckle etc.

After jade was exclusively used as sacrificial objects and ornaments, it usually appeared in the form of ritual objects and ornaments. Only the jade wine cup, case, pillow, hooker and se


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[silver jewelry] Jade handicraft - tibetan bracelets

Chinese handicraft has stood out in the endless flow of Chinese culture: It was an emblem of the ingenuity of the ancient Chinese. Today it still shines in the world. It began very early and develops very quickly. Its achievements are most remarkable.

Jade handicraft is the oldest Chinese handicraft. It dates back to the Neolithic Age, with a history of between five an

Qianlong period, Qing Dynasty
Height: 41cm

Of hexagonal form, each facet of the body and neck decorated with blossoming lotus stems enclosed within blue archaistic scroll borders, those on the narrow sides divided by one of the vertical gilt-copper borders which define the edges of the facets, with further flower sprays on blue-ground borders above and below, and with a pair of gilded chilong dragon handles.


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