For the Chinese, jade’s luster represents good fortune, prosperity and longevity. For impoverished Burmese toiling in squalid mines, it represents escape, or at least the dream of it. The reality, as ...
A few days ago for my preview of the inaugural TEFAF New York Fall art fair, I wrote about Wallace Chan’s “Stilled Life” art jewel, an artistic depiction of a bright green cicada made of Imperial ...