4000 Years of Chinese Archaic Jades: The Development of the Jade-Carving Tradition from the Neolithic to the Han Dynasty
The book offers a thorough overview of the jade-carving tradition of ancient China through more than 350 fully illustrated that cover a time span of about four thousand years. The jades, presently in several private collections all over the world, cover an uninterrupted period of four-thousand years, spanning from the Neolithic (5th - 4th millennium BC) to the end of the Han dynasty (3rd century AD) and illustrate in detail almost all of the major forms and decorative motifs of the ancient Chinese jade-carving tradition.