JADE, FROM EMPERORS TO ART DECO

From 19 October 2016 to 16 January 2017 at the National Museum of Asian Arts GUIMET.

Exhibition made with outstanding loans including those of the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Jade is part of the oldest history of Chinese art. In a few famous lines, Confucius sets out its fully symbolic dimension and loaded with founding values: “The sages of Antiquity compared virtue to jade. He is the image of goodness, because he is soft to the touch, smooth; prudence, because his veins are fine, compact and he is solid; music, because percussion produces clear, high, prolonged sounds that end abruptly; sincerity because its brilliance is not veiled by its faults nor its faults by its brilliance; from the sky because it looks like a rainbow; from the earth because its emanations issue from mountains and rivers; virtue because they are made into tablets and half-tablets which the envoys of the princes offer without accompanying them with other presents. "
Through more than 300 works from prestigious national and international collections, the exhibition offers a historical and aesthetic epic of jade from the sources of Chinese history to the 1920 years where the taste of jade was a source of inspiration for jewels and modern art objects ..
The presentation of the first-class collections of the MNAAG, the Cernuschi Museum, the Louvre and the National Museum of Natural History alongside the imperial pieces of the National Museum of the Palace of Taipei, those of the Chinese Museum of the Empress Eugenie at the castle of Fontainebleau and the sumptuous Art Deco creations of the Cartier House, offer an exceptional panorama of this major expression of Chinese civilization.

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