.... small is beautiful...or the wonder of tiny jade carvings
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| Tiny |
Mini jade carvings are not always easy to decipher or comprehend. At first glance they may look like hopeless blobs of jade.
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| What carving is this ?? |
If you look at miniature carvings with the naked eye you may not make out what the jade artisan is depicting. But if you peer at them with a magnifier then presto they are transformed ! My own moment of discovery came as I was searching among my scattered stuff with a magnifier and turned up these two gems below.
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| 2 gems of jade carvings |
What a bonus !
The circular jade measuring 1.2cm turns out to be a bird as shown in the example below
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| Neat bird carved into the circular jade |
The second jade is 2 cm long is mostly white and the contrasting patch of bright green reveals a perching bird.
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| See the bird ?? |
While the value of small carvings is negligible they are in my eyes quite amazing and collectible !
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| Amazing and collectible! |
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