A Romance With Jade: From The De An Tang Collection
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few materials in human history have captivated a civilization as profoundly as jade has captivated China — and A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection presents a breathtaking testament to this millennia-long devotion. This lavishly illustrated volume chronicles one of the most distinguished private jade collections in the world, the De An Tang Collection, showcasing exquisitely carved jades spanning centuries of Chinese artisanship, from archaic ritual objects to intricately sculpted ornamental pieces that speak to the highest levels of imperial and scholarly taste. Beyond its role as a sumptuous visual record, the work argues powerfully for jade's central place in Chinese cosmology, philosophy, and aesthetic culture — a stone that Confucius himself associated with virtue, beauty, and moral rectitude. Each object presented within these pages illustrates not merely technical mastery, but an entire worldview encoded in nephrite and jadeite, where the subtlest translucency or the curve of a dragon's claw carries profound symbolic weight. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of East Asian art alike, this catalogue raises an irresistible question: what does it mean for a culture to see its own soul reflected in stone?
Author: BEN SHE.YI MING
Format: Hardback
Published: 2004, Cambridge University Press (presumably)
Genre: Antiques & collectibles
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few materials in human history have captivated a civilization as profoundly as jade has captivated China — and A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection presents a breathtaking testament to this millennia-long devotion. This lavishly illustrated volume chronicles one of the most distinguished private jade collections in the world, the De An Tang Collection, showcasing exquisitely carved jades spanning centuries of Chinese artisanship, from archaic ritual objects to intricately sculpted ornamental pieces that speak to the highest levels of imperial and scholarly taste. Beyond its role as a sumptuous visual record, the work argues powerfully for jade's central place in Chinese cosmology, philosophy, and aesthetic culture — a stone that Confucius himself associated with virtue, beauty, and moral rectitude. Each object presented within these pages illustrates not merely technical mastery, but an entire worldview encoded in nephrite and jadeite, where the subtlest translucency or the curve of a dragon's claw carries profound symbolic weight. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of East Asian art alike, this catalogue raises an irresistible question: what does it mean for a culture to see its own soul reflected in stone?