Giant Jade Sitting Buddha Sculpture

Description

Handcrafted Giant Jade Sitting Buddha Sculpture.

Description

A fantastic heavyweight Chinese Jade Buddha carved from Dushan Jade. This Laughing Buddha weighs in at an impressive 33kg and sits in a relaxed posture with one leg tucked beneath him and holding a string of beads across his knee. The colour is a mid to dark green with mottles and veins of paler greens and flecks of darker colour

Dimensions (l x b x h)
50cm x 20cm x 35cm approx

Materials
Stone

Colours
Green

Weight
33kg approx

Packing
Wooden packing crate lined with polystyrene or matting

Dushan jade is also known as “Nanyang jade” or “Nan jade”, which is produced in Dushan just north of Nanyang city. Is one of the Chinese four great jades, the quality of Dushan jade is tough and dense, exquisite, soft and moist, and its colour is transparent. It has six colours: green, white, yellow, purple, red and black.

Dushan jade has a long history. The jade spade found in 1959 in Neolithic sites at Huangshan near Dushan can prove that ancestors had already recognized and used Dushan jade long before 5,000 years ago. Afterwards, DUshan jade was widely used to make jade carvings. There are more than 120 breeds of jade carvings, like people, flowers, birds and beasts, landscapes, gods, sandalwood burner and jewelry. Dushan jade has already become the famous specialty of Nanyang.

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This item is handcrafted from Chinese jade stone using traditional techniques. Therefore, the items you receive may differ slightly from the photos. 

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