Friday, April 29, 2011

I LOVE COLLECTING.....

.....Jade flowers....

The jade flowers I show in this post date from the Ming-Qing period(1368-1912 )  Carved in rosette or elongated shapes they were mostly used as hairpins, hair ornaments or formed parts of larger headgear. The smaller flowers shown in picture 4 could also have been used as buttons.

in rosette shapes pic 1

rosette shape  pic 2

rosette shape pic 3


rosette shape pic 4

elongated shapes pic 1