Excellent book One of my favourites - and genuinely useful - is “ibstock” An “ibstock” is a perfectly sized length of natural wood - a small branch perhaps - that you find at the beginning of a rural… (View Post)

PICTURE QUIZ Seen at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, today. The place whereto the Nationalists smuggled much of China’s great treasure in 1949 It’s a pretty, typically Chinese piece of jade orn… (View Post)

Fpt for @MoonRabbit on my CHINESE PICTURE QUIZ “It’s a dragon. Special because it made in ancient times? By the Xiongnu? Or special because it’s from Europe?” You are a third and a bit right. 40% rig… (View Post)

Yes, they emphasise that in the truly SPECTACULAR Jade galleries (I now wish I’d bought more cheap Jade in Myanmar) They have a Jade tri link. It’s three concentric circles of Jade so perfectly carve… (View Post)

Fpt. I’ll answer myself as it came awkwardly at the end of a thread “PICTURE QUIZ Seen at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, today. The place whereto the Nationalists smuggled much of China’s grea… (View Post)