The exhibit attempts to trace the porcelain to Jamestown through personal chests of merchants and mariners of trading ...
Bonhams New York is offering a host of delicate treasures in its “Cohen & Cohen: 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain” live auction on January 24. “One lovely aspect of the European lady figure is ...
Here's the thing about antique china. Most people assume those dusty old plates stacked in Grandma's cabinet are just ...
This summer, led by China’s Cultural Ministry, I was honored to visit the millennium ancient porcelain capital, Jingdezhen city in Jiangxi province, along with cultural diplomats from a dozen ...
China hasn’t always been trying to catch up with the West. Gunpowder, the compass, paper and movable type: The Chinese are famous for inventing them all. A little less well known is that the Chinese ...
For more than 1,000 years, Chinese porcelain has enchanted the world. Its exacting craftsmanship and exceeding beauty have made it a touchstone of Asian culture. While westerners have long found it ...
Nine items made from imperial Chinese porcelain believed to be worth millions were stolen from a museum in Cologne, Germany, in a brazen art heist carried out, per the museum “with great effort and ...
Some of the exhibits at a new show about Chinese trade porcelains are not what most people would think of as “museum quality”. But these chipped plates, water-damaged teapots and humble fragments of ...
The auction room – standing room only – broke into applause when the hammer finally went down. On sale was a tiny, white cup decorated with chickens, and the buyer was a prolific art collector from ...