TIMELESS JADE

For those of our friends who have been wondering where we have been the last six months or so: we have closed down our gallery location and are currently working on our 6th Annual – Jade Through The Ages Show – which will be held at the Tucson Gem And Mineral Show, in the main exhibition hall, from Feb 9-12, under heavy armed guard. Following my last two jade articles here on Timeless Jade, we experienced four robbery attempts and two violently successful robberies. It appears that writing educational articles has driven some people to madness. We are currently in the process of getting all the authentic items we own and represent into a secure museum location, either in China or at a major university in the US. Having to shut down such a beautiful, educational setting where people could physically compare real to fakes, and under microscopic conditions, was hurtful to many, but to keep so many precious items in a place of jeopardy was intolerable. In the future, we may write articles again here on Timeless Jade and on our Timeless Artifact web sites, on lesser pieces of scientific and educational value, but for now, getting the artifacts into a secure location and out of our personal names is of the utmost importance.  Again, please excuse the interruption, and please come visit us at Jade Through The Ages .

David Fredericks – Yulongwei

Antiquities Plus… & Timeless Jade along with the Fredericks- McIntire Collection is proud to be invited to participate as a sponsor in the 1st Annual Santa Barbara Jade & Ocean Arts Festival. While we would love to attend what we are sure will be a most successful Annual Jade Festival this year, with prior commitments abounding and a recovery from illness in its final stages, we will only be able to sponsor the Festival this year in our fashion. The Fredericks- McIntire Collection will be donating the above Qing Dynasty White Nephrite Jade Frog toggle to the Santa Barbara Jade Festival as a gift for them to give away, raffle, auction, or do with as the festival committee sees fit. This nephrite jade, frog toggle, will be accompanied with a Certified Appraisal (not a certificate of authenticity – which are only opinions, and are not legally binding) from Dr. Timothy William Jones PhD,. and a 100% Guarantee Certificate (as can be viewed on the Antiquities Plus… web site) on the item from Antiquities Plus…  to be of the period and condition stated. It will also go with a promise to the end recipient for an extended, documented, microscopically analyzed, write up (some conditions apply), here on Timeless Jade. This wonderful little White Khotan-Hetian Jade toggle (in Japan this item would be called a Netsuke) has an extremely unusual green, naturally tinted, rind, or skin, and has been subjected to all the methods of cleaning and microscopic detection we show in so many articles here at Timeless Jade. All wear and tooling marks are guaranteed to be original and from the period onward. There has been no re-cutting or re-polishing of the jade and no appearance of artificial dyes in the unusual green rind or skin of the jade.

This unusual jade frog toggle still retains remnants of the original Qing Dynasty  wax coatings in the grooves of the design (showing as light, reddish, lines in the designs originally cut into the jade, and seen in the photos above) even after being subjected to the acetone, oxalic acid, bleach, and high pressure water removal of any newer waxes. The only re-coating performed by myself, has been a light re-coating of the jade with a mixture of coconut oil and camellia oil combined. Both clear wax and oils are entirely acceptable by law (as long as they are not polymers, or dyed by US Federal law) to retain the ‘Type A’ designation. The newer, heavier, waxes, which were later applied to this jade frog (to make it look shiny and pretty), can easily be re-applied should one wish to make it all shiny again, (I personally like the use of oils, as they have more of a tendency to keep the jade ‘alive’). This wonderful little frog was chosen for donation by us for its unusual character of nephrite jade, genuineness of originality, and outstanding middle 19th century design. The quality of the main White Khotan Jade which comprises this frog toggle is of the highest, tightly fibered, translucent, to mutton fat white jade, (and it alone sells in the $3,000.00 US Dollar range in China). This toggle is 100% guaranteed to be Pre-UNESCO Treaty Legal, as I purchased it long ago and have displayed it at our old Jade Art Now Shows, Big Sur Jade Festival Show and at a past Jade Through The Ages Show. This beautiful toggle is also scheduled to be for public viewing at the magnificent Ty Warner Sea Center – Santa Barbara Museum Of Natural History for the week preceding the show (please contact the show for details).

Measurements: 6.7cm Length – 3.5cm Width – 3cm Height — Weight 108 grams (3.81 ounces)

We at Antiquities, Plus…, Timeless Jade, Timeless Artifact, and the Fredericks-McIntire Collection wish the Santa Barbara Jade & Ocean Arts Festival our sincerest best wishes for a most successful show (which we know will be a major United States Jade Showing, now and in the future), as many of the great artists and vendors who have shown with us in the past are attending, and are of the highest ranking in our opinion and regards. For those who will be fortunate enough to attend this professionally  constructed, and beautifully located event, we wish the best of adventures into the world of jade and all the wonderful ‘treasures’ available at this Festival. Please, to everyone, to visit their web site and provide all the support you can.

David Fredericks — Yulongwei

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Fredericks-McIntire Collection- Massive Warring States Jade Vessel with gold gilding (see previous article here on TimelessJade.com)

Georg Schmerholz of Jade Fine Art – “Dragons of the Sun And Moon” – Siberian White Jade & Gold – Californian Jade & Sterling Silver

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Large Eastern Zhou Period Green Khotan Jade Vessel (rear dragon foot showing old damage and repair).

This next year’s “Jade Through The Ages Show 2011″ will be presented at the world’s largest gem and mineral show – The 57th Annual Tucson Gem And Mineral Show – Main Four Day Event – in the Tucson Convention Center Arena.

On display this year will be new works of Jade Art from some of the finest Jade Carvers in the world, along with some of the most exquisite jade artifacts (dating back thousands of years) from ancient China – all in a beautiful setting at the Tucson Convention Center.

Our Annual Jade Through The Ages Show dinner will held the evening of February 8th, between 6pm and 10pm at Yuki’s Sushi & Seafood at 2962 N. Campbell Avenue Tucson, AZ 85719. This past year’s dinner here was so successful, and enjoyed by so many, that it was decided by the committee to reserve the entire restaurant for next year’s dinner. Come and meet the artists and some of the top ‘characters’ in the Jade World, in a relaxed setting, before enjoying the show at the Tucson Convention Center.

The official web site for the show is at Jade Through The Ages, and we will continue to add new photographs of this year’s creations and artifacts as they are provided to us. We will show some of the fine pieces to be displayed, here and on our TimelessArtifact.com site, but it will certainly not include the entire show. For official inquiries please contact David Fredericks – david@antiquitiesplus.com or phone 520-991-2153.

Ang Collection – Extremely rare Zhou Period Yellow Jade Dragon in ‘cleaned’ condition

Ang Collection – Shang Period “Sardine Can Man” with petrified tree roots (as shown in a previous article here on TimelessJade.com)

Ang Collection – Western Zhou Period Pig of White Khotan-Hetian Jade, in cleaned condition

As space will be more limited at the show next year, we chose the three above pieces from the Ang Estate to represent this marvelous collection, which was brought out of China by Ms. Ang’s grandfather in 1950. All are wonderful examples showing original period tooling marks.

Peter Shilling of Taking Form Jade – Honey-Combed Pendant

Peter Schilling of Taking Form Jade – Free Form Pendant

Peter Schilling of Taking Form Jade – Free Form Spiral Pendant

Peter is known the world over for his wonderful forms and the exquisite ‘old style’ polish he produces. While working with jades and jadeites from all over the world, Peter consistently has been the top sales-producer (in the smaller forms) in all of our past shows because of this amazing attention to hand-worked, detailed perfection. (All photos of Peter’s work taken by Bill Kipp).

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Large Hongshan Period Eagle pendant with mercury sulfide penetration

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Large Hongshan Period Fenghuang pendant with mercury sulfide penetration (mate to the photo above)

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Hongshan Period Pig Dragon & Ax with in-situ manganese deposits (other side lightly re-polished)

Justin Barrett of “Just in Jade” Green Big  Sur, California Jade pendant

Justin Barrett of “Just in Jade” using extremely rare Californian Big Sur Blue Jade for one of his fine pendants

Justin is one of the renowned collectors and old divers of Nephrite Jade off the beaches of California and an expert on all types of California Jade and Jadeite

Georg Schmerholz of Jade Fine Art – Two works – Left; “Shibumi” – Right; “Heart to Heart”

Georg Schmerholz of Jade Fine Art – “Ohnaa” – portraits in Jade of actual children’s faces

Georg Schmerholz of Jade Fine Art – another masterpiece of an actual child’s face carved in Jade

All one has to do is visit Georg’s Jade Fine Art web site, and view his other web sites, to know he is one of the finest sculptors alive today. His work is commissioned all over the world and his genius speaks for itself.

Steve & Kathleen Martinek Collection – Three Eastern Han Jade Vessels (to be found here in their own article on TimelessJade.com)

K. C. Bell Collection – White & Grey Jade Western Han Dynasty “Casket” in cleaned condition.

K. C. Bell Collection – Ming Dynasty Nephrite Cup & Lid in cleaned condition

While most of our artifact jades being shown are in their ‘cleaned condition’, we will also be showing some artifacts which have been re-polished and still have some of the original waxes and coatings on them that accompanied their original restoration process. While in Tucson, if any qualified museum academic, auction house representative, or buyer would wish to arrange a private viewing of all the jades represented, an appointment may be arranged for later microscopic viewing (before or after the TGMS show).Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Han Dynasty Dragon Bi with ‘Chook Bone’ Jade remnants, in cleaned condition

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Late Ming – Early Qing Dynasty re-polished 16-Dragon Mutton Fat Jade Bi

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Restored Han Dynasty White Jade 16-Dragon Bi (areas of extreme white were restored using glue and powered nephrite and then re-carved), shown in cleaned condition

Tom Finneran’s bangle made of British Columbian Nephrite

Tom Finneran’s “Wicked Witch OF The West” sculpture

Peter Schilling of Taking Form Jade – ‘Sea Creature Pendant’

Georg Schmerholz of Jade Fine Art – “Baby Draco” – an ‘ordered only’ pendant as each one is custom fit to the buyer

Dante Lopez Cancun, Mexico – Green Guatemalan Jadeite – “Tree Frog”

Shamrock Collection – 14th – 15th Century White Jadeite restored figure from Siam – Thailand(as featured in article here on TimelessJade.com)

Shamrock Collection – Late Qing Dynasty wedding headdress made of Carnelian Agate – while not being made of jade, this is one of the 4-5 pieces of non-jade we will be showing in our display case as background ‘color’ – Master carved in the finest of the Qing Dynasty tradition and the only one its kind we have ever seen

Kim Stewart Collection – Qing Dynasty (Kangxi Period) Silver Inlayed Huanghuali wood Ruyi with three white and green Jadeite panels in remarkable period condition

K. C. Bell Collection – Liangzhu Culture pendant in cleaned condition with restorer’s original partially re-incised decorations & original iron oxide deposits

K. C. Bell Collection – Eastern Zhou Rhyton Cup With Dragon – in cleaned condition – showing the oldest Rhyton cup we have ever seen or verified.

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Massive Nephrite Jade Warring States Period Pei – restored minor break in Fenghuang section – showing original degradation and true colors

Lee Speights – Black Wyoming Nephrite Jade Horse Pendant

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Shang to Zhou Period White Jade, Copper Electroplated and Gold Gilt Anthrozoomorphic figures in restored condition

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Two White Jade Han Dynasty Lidded Vessels (as shown in the article here on TimelessJade.com)

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Han Dynasty green and degraded white Jade Horse shown in restored condition

James Campbell Family Collection – Original Han Dynasty Bi & Pei shown in cleaned original condition with only small ‘window’ re-polished to show the jade underneath

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Three Layer Han Dynasty Jade Bi shown in cleaned condition

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Liangzhu Culture Pendant shown in cleaned condition with original iron oxide deposits

Fredericks-McIntire Collection – Two Liangzhu Culture pendants shown in cleaned condition with natural detritus penetration

[Please stay in touch with all of our three web sites - JadeThroughTheAges.com - TimelessJade.com & TimelessArtifact.com for all further updates on the Jade Through The Ages Show]

David Fredericks — Yulongwei

California’s Clear Creek Jadeite Showing Many Healed Fractures In Upper Photo & Minuscule Pure Jadeite Crystals Healing Another Fracture In A Higher Microscopic Power View – Specimen From Kirk Brock – Rock Solid Jade

“David Fredericks, world-renowned author of TimelessJade.com andTimelessArtifact.com, will be presented as this year’s keynote speaker for the 19th Annual Big Sur Jade Festival.

David will be putting on a two-hour (2pm to 4pm) microscopic, interactive display of jade and jadeite artifacts and specimens for those who attend this never-before done special event.

The microscopic investigation will be presented Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Along with specimens from around the globe, the public is invited to bring a few of their own items about which they may be curious.”

As the wonderful announcement from the Big Sur Jade Festival above refers, we are proud to be invited to to be the keynote speaker at one of the Greatest Jade Events in the World. Being part of past festivals we have only the highest regard for this one. This is the festival where it is all about Jade & Jadeite from around the World. Just about every top geologist, geophysicist, jade miner and jade artisan has attended this wonderful three day festival, where the live music never stops playing and the huge crowds which attend are all in harmony with the “Stones of Heaven”.

Beautiful Jade Sculpture By Georg Schmerholz

Marvelous White Siberian Jade Shell Form By Peter Schilling

David Fredericks will be putting on the first known, interactive microscopic display showing the qualities, features and anomalies of nephrite and jadeite jades as shown on Timeless Jade. This will include interactive, personal viewings under microscopic conditions of differing jades and jadeites, and their structural qualities, from around the globe, along with personal viewing of real artifact jades and their modern replications. Each of the three two-hour sessions will be filled with specimen jades and anomalies of both nephrite and jadeite.

Two Of The Artifact Jades That Will Be On Display & For Microscopic Viewing

Attendees of the interactive microscopic display will be allowed to bring a few specimens of their own for open viewing, as time allows. We only ask for courtesy for others and an understanding that this will be going on for two hours, each of the three days of the Jade Festival. We will get to as much as is humanly possible in the times allotted, while still holding to a bit of a schedule in the presentations we feel are most important to the jade and jadeite worlds, and the new and exciting discoveries being made.

Microscopic View of Kirk Makepeace’s  Specimen from The Jade Mine New Mt. Ogden Nephrite Discovery

Extremely Old & Very New Pseudomorphs In Wyoming Nephrite Jade

As can well be imagined, there will be many specimens of the local Big Sur Jades to be viewed under microscopic conditions as well, during the demonstrations periods. There will also be viewings of new discoveries in the jade world from new sources. All in all, it should be one of the most fun and most informative jade & jadeite presentations, we believe, that has ever been undertaken – at least that is our grandest desire.

Microscopic Drilling Marks On an Over 5,500 year old Chinese Jade Artifact

David Fredericks — Yulongwei

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