Ye Xiangrong’s landscape album
This album is a landscape painting, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial pain…
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jade pig
This object is cut from jade, the stone the Chinese court valued above every other because it could be worked but never rushed. Jade does not bend; the car…
Yunxi Landscape Book
The album is landscape painting, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than struck.
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white jade sleeping dog
The object is a study in patience. White jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and restraint at…
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Mo Yugui
This gui tablet is cut from black jade, the stone the Chinese court valued above every other because it could be worked but never rushed. Jade does not ben…
Jasper double-cylindrical flower arrangement with animal face pattern
The object is a study in patience. Dark green (bian) jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and…
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Sapphire Sanyang Kaitai
This object is cut from green jade, the stone the Chinese court valued above every other because it could be worked but never rushed. Jade does not bend; t…
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Jade animal face pattern jade
The bi disc is a study in patience. Jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and restraint at once…
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White Jade Changyi Descendants Pei
This pendant is cut from white jade, the stone the Chinese court valued above every other because it could be worked but never rushed. Jade does not bend;…
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Jade pendant
The pendant is a study in patience. Jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and restraint at once…