Jade. Des empereurs à l'Art Déco. Collections – Expositions all made in one piece

all made in one piece

Exhibition catalogue Musée Maillol

“Archaeology and Culture” collection

of which it is both the tool and the origin

Jade. Des empereurs à l'Art Déco. Collections – Expositions all made in one pieceMore than 200 works from prestigious national and international collections, including some of the most sumptuous pieces from the Chinese imperial collections, create a historical and aesthetic epic of jade. From the sources of the most ancient China, where jade draws its fundamental values, to the 1920s, when this stone, "more precious than gold", became a source of inspiration for jewelry and modern art objects, this work lifts the veil on the