Jade and stone
A block of stone valued for its nature and its knife marks rather than for painted decoration. Seals and hand pieces can be signed, and a collector's name can be cut to order.
In preparation · Shoushan village, Jin'an district, Fuzhou, China
The craft
Seal carving, hand pieces and scholar's objects.
The first line under assessment is Shoushan stone, worked by Fuzhou carvers. The official heritage project name and level have not been verified for a specific workshop, so no heritage listing is claimed here.
Maker series: Maker selection in progress.
What the work is about
Stone carving is judged by the pit, the texture, the colour and the cut. A seal is small, dense and hard: it travels well, and its value sits in the hand of the carver rather than in its weight.
The difficulty is authenticity. Dyed stone from other sources is common, and an overseas buyer cannot tell the difference from a photograph. Trust has to be built before any piece is offered.
So this category stays in preparation. We publish what would have to be true before a piece could appear here, and we collect enquiries rather than listings.
In preparation · no pieces listed
We do not list objects we cannot show
This category is being assessed against the same 7-dimension model used for the porcelain line. A named maker, real object photography, measured dimensions and the documents below come before any listing.
Register an interestAdmission criteria
What has to be true before a piece from this category can appear here.
- One authoritative appraisal certificate per piece, with the certificate number shown on the page
- A named living carver, direct supply and a signature attributable to that carver
- Documented legal stone source before any export declaration
- Made to order, so no stock is held and no piece is duplicated
- The official heritage project name, level and inheritor are not stated until verified
Evidence on hand
Stated as fact only where a document or a photograph can be shown.
- No pieces are listed. No certificate or stone-source document has been published for this category yet.
Guide prices, planned ranges, category scores and compliance claims are not published for preparing categories. Nothing here is a promise of availability.