One of the world's finest collections of Chinese jade is tipped to sell for for £3.1million. The 15 pieces were acquired by the former Conservative MP Somerset de Chair who left them to his widow, ...

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The jade used since ancient times in China is nephrite, which in its pure state is white but may be green, cream, yellow, brown, gray, black or mottled due to the presence of impurities, chiefly iron ...

China's art collection market was for a time depressed in the 20th Century due to wars and the slow economic development that followed. The past 30 to 40 years have seen it recovering, witnessed by ...

Vase with dragons (Qing Dynasty, 18th–19th century), jade (nephrite), on view in ‘A Passion for Jade’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “His is an example ...

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Miners search for jade stones at a mine dump at a Hpakant jade mine in Kachin state, Burma Credit: Photo: Reuters Using heavy earth-excavators and explosives, miners have been tearing into Burma's ...

From the garden deck of his office, Yup Zau Hkawng looks over one of the greener cities in Asia. Myitkyina is the capital of Myanmar's Kachin State, its wide boulevards lined with trees. The sleepy ...

At the site of a Neolithic settlement in East China's Anhui Province that dates to 5,800 to 5,300 years ago, Chinese archaeologists are busy cleaning numerous cultural relics, mainly a variety of jade ...