Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Bi Jade Disc and Its Motif in Cartier’s Jewelry of the First Half of the 20th Century: From Artistic Appropriation to Sustainable Development

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (5)
Authors
Kniazeva, Aleksandra S.; Budrina, Ludmila A.
Contact information
Kniazeva, Aleksandra S.: Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0009-0001-3406-2539; Budrina, Ludmila A. : Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-8099-5292
Keywords
nephrite; jade; high jewelry; Cartier; art deco; disk Bi; Qing Dynasty; cross-cultural communication; sustainable development
Abstract

The article examines the development and variety of Chinese carved jade’s uses in the Cartier’s works in the 20th century. The emphasis is on artistic interpretations of Chinese jade Bi discs. Using methods of art historical analysis, the evolution of jewelry works is traced from the initial absorption of colored stone in the wake of Art Deco through the borrowing of material, motifs and forms characteristic of decorative and applied art in China to the works of the middle of the century, marked by a new aesthetic of exoticism. As an element of the jewelry house’s artistic heritage, jade is viewed through the prism of corporate and social factors of sustainable development. In the context of the creative economy, the authors revel the importance of this colored stone as a factor of sustainable development for the formation of effective means of the jewelry brand’s economic impact on the art market

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934–944
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QUWCIG
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158446

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