Two objects made of jade (slightly translucent), which comes in almost all colors. Jade has been revered in China for thousands of years as the "stone of the gods", is almost overloaded with mythological meaning and is still of central importance today. Left: a flat disk with a Chinese character in the bottom, 9 cm. Right: a turtle with a dragon's head, a "little one" is sitting on the shell, the color is more gray, 5.5 cm. This type of representation is known as Bixi (or Pi-hsi), can also be found in countries such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia and we will encounter it several times in the collection, including on two old postcards. [hint: this is an automatic translation from German]   |   Category: folk arts   |   Material: Mineralien   |   Country of origin: Shaanxi, China | Similar pieces