Chinese Tree Sculpture

This tree is made of varying colors of jade on flexible wires in a solid jade base. The tree also contains some carnelian and rose quartz pieces. Jade has been used in virtually all periods of Chinese history and generally accords with the style of decorative art characteristic of each period. Thus, the earliest jades, of the Neolithic Period, are quite simple and unornamented; those of the Shang (18th
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