A qinghua porcelain flask from the Yuan Dynasty is on show at Poly Art Museum in Beijing. [China Daily] Qinghua (blue-and-white) porcelain is among the brightest jewels of Chinese artwork. Discerning ...
Going back some two hundred and fifty years or thereabouts, around about the middle of the 18th century, if you were ...
Sophie Metais, director of international relations of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (first from the right), receives and displays the artwork. [Photo/Xinhua] In a unique fusion of ...
Last year, a man perusing a yard sale near New Haven, Connecticut, purchased a blue-and-white Chinese bowl for $35. Now, reports Oscar Holland for CNN, the savvy shopper—whose bargain buy turned out ...
The lifelike figurines are characteristic of the middle and late Tang dynasties, the director of the Fanjia site, He Li, said. Zhao Xiao The Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social ...
Specialty: Chinese porcelain and works of art from antiquity to the early 19th century. History lesson: Snow-white, hard-paste ceramics—a.k.a. porcelain—originated in China more than 1,000 years ago.