Today I will explain to you a tiger head type of jade ornament from the late Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, because this jade ornament, its size is relatively small, many people see this thing and say that this thing is not a pendant, that is, a pendant, in order to understand this problem I first want to introduce some differences between jade ornaments and pendants, or what characteristics they have.
The first pendant is basically multi-type, what is multi-type? That is, most of the types of hanging ornaments are random, more casual, there is no fixed mode, and all the elements of the card decoration, such as the type system and ornamentation, are basically symmetrical with each other, and it has certain rules.
The second is that this jade plate decoration it is the upper and lower ends of the piercing, that is to say, the upper and lower ends are connected, rather than like the single-sided hole of the pendant, this jade plate decoration it is Hetian white jade green, and there is a pretty color, this kind of pretty color is relatively rare before the Western Han Dynasty, until the Eastern Han Dynasty gradually became popular, the above is some basic definition of this artifact to share, and then share the artifact itself.
First of all, we look at its facial features, I believe that many ancient jade lovers, the first thing that enters the eye curtain must be the outline of this pair of very large almond eyes, as if we eat almonds, its outline is very full, very large and very round, at the same time we can also see that its eyes have a micro-knife rounding technique, in addition, we look at its ears, its ear shape is very sharp, this sharp ear shape, it is called tiger ear, this tiger type ear is also very relics of the Warring States period.
Its surface is engraved with a lot of fine yin lines, we observed that these thin yin lines seem to be parallel, in fact, if carefully screened through the magnifying glass, it can be found that these lines are unequal distance, that is to say, the distance of each line is not equal, and the length of each line is not the same, and there are relatively clear traces of grinding, the bottom groove of the yin line and the jade surface are compared, and relatively speaking, it is relatively consistent, looking at the overall tiger head type jade ornament, we found that there are many small yin lines.
Including the beard, we can also observe these characteristics shared above, such as its unequal distance, and the length of each line is not the same thickness, there will be these characteristics, which is also a small skill to distinguish the authenticity, in addition, we see the long yin line beard, very delicate, the performance of this technique is also very in line with the late Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty this unique style of engraving, because its beard is very dense and very thin, this feature also played a certain auxiliary role in our generation, The characteristics shared above are also basically in line with the style of the early Eastern Han Dynasty at that time.