New Silver Leaf

The performance of our silver leaf was improved by the addition of more noble metals. As shown in the following pictures, the quality of the silver sculpture of a ginkgo leaf was enhanced by the presence of palladium on the leaf blade, and thick gold on the leaf petiole.

Silver Alloy Leaf

A ginkgo leaf was selected to turn into its corresponding silver sculpture. To enhance the performance of this silver leaf, as shown in the following pictures, the leaf blade was alloyed with palladium and the leaf petiole was alloyed with gold.

Ginkgo Leaf Fossil – Silver on Stone

We drew a ginkgo leaf on a stone by using silver metal. Owing to the strong adhesion between silver and stone, hence we could not separate the silver by knife. The thickness of silver is around 0.2 to 0.4 mm. Therefore, as shown in the following picture, the silver sculpture is a ginkgo leaf fossil.

Porcelain Painting – Silver Embossment

In addition to the versatile advantages of regular porcelain paintings, our works are silver embossments. As shown in the following picture, the thickness of silver embossment is around 0.2 to 0.8 mm. Some parts of the silver embossment were blackened by palladium metal.

Porcelain Painting – Taiwanese Souvenir

Porcelain painting is a very popular technique. Instead of regular pigments, only silver, gold and palladium were used in our porcelain painting, resulted in a very special embossment. As indicated in the following picture, a porcelain painting of vase was obtained by using only noble metals. It is a very beautiful Taiwanese souvenir.

A Small Maple Leaf

Maple tree was planted in my garden. In contrast to regular size, a small maple leaf was turned into its corresponding silver sculpture by using only 3.2 grams of silver. The silver leaf was put into a glass bulb, as shown in the following pictures, a better performance was obtained.

Three Silver Leaves.

Each leaf is unique, hence my silver-leaf is also unique. Three leaves of Taiwan-Wild-Grape were turned into their corresponding silver sculptures, as shown in the following pictures, these silver-leaves are framed to demonstrate the unique of my silver-works.

My Silver leaves

Tarnish is a big problem to my silver leaves. Free of chemical treatment, hence only more noble metals could be used to reduce the tarnish of our silver works. As shown in the following pictures, therefore, both of gold and palladium were added to enhance the tarnish-resistance of my silver leaves. Real noble silver leaves.

Noble Silver Leaf

Study chemistry more than 40 years, hence I do not like any chemical or base metal in my silver-leaf work. Without chemical, base metal, and plating, only gold, palladium, and rhodium were used to prevent tarnish from our silver leaf. As a result, as shown in the following pictures, this silver leaf is made of noble silver and noble gold.

Gold Art

As shown in the following pictures, a nice ginkgo leaf was turned into its corresponding gold sculpture by using only 10.5 grams of pure gold. We change a natural art into a permanent gold-art.

Gold Leaf – Gold Souvenir

Wedelia has been used in the landscape as a groundcover at Taipei. People like wedelia because of its beautiful leaves. In addition to the jagged edges, the leaves also have nice vein structures. As shown in the following pictures, two wedelia leaves were turned into their pure-gold sculpture. These gold leaves are the best gold souvenirs.

Taiwanese Souvenir – Golden Taiwan

Taiwan, my country, is a island of 394 Km long and 144 Km wide. Golden sculptures of Taiwan-island shape, as shown in the following two pictures, were created by using 8.5 grams of gold foils and 5.6 grams gold particles respectively. They are Taiwanese souvenirs made of pure gold.

Gold Sculpture – Taiwan Souvenir

Different golden sculpture could be created by using thick gold foils and small gold particles. As indicated in the following picture, a sculpture of distorted star-moon was created by 8 grams of pure gold.

Taiwan-Wild-Grape Leaf

A beautiful leaf of Taiwan-wild-grape near our office was selected to turn into its corresponding silver sculpture. As shown in the following pictures, this silver leaf (a souvenir) will make some pleasant memories of our leaving colleague.

Musical-note Gold – Taiwan Gift

Thick gold foils with overall hackly in texture were produced at my lab. Each foil has around 1 cm length. Owing to the flexibility of pure-gold foil, many beautiful gold patterns were obtained. As shown in the following picture, beautiful gold with musical-note shape was obtained by using 5.5 grams of pure gold.