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For example, Song dynasty ceramics are admired for their simplicity ... shaping taste and craftsmanship in other cultures. What is a rare Chinese antique gem, in your opinion?
So how can a collection of porcelain be worth such a mind-boggling amount? The market for Chinese ceramics – always regarded ...
Chinese archaeologists have recovered around 10,000 pieces of antique pottery and porcelain in an underwater excavation of a shipwreck believed to date back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 ...
A ginger jar initially dismissed as “just another piece of blue-and-white pottery” turned out to be a 300-year-old Chinese treasure ... that blue-and-white ceramics flourished in China ...
Described by auction house Sotheby’s as “highly important,” the antique hails from a rare group of ceramics decorated ... while the various Chinese art sales fetched a combined 1.64 billion ...
The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year ...
Bonhams New York will bring a trove of Qing ceramics and archaistic jades from the Met to the auction block on March 18, during Asia Week. Dubbed “Passion and Philanthropy: Chinese Art from The ...
A 1,700-piece private collection of Chinese ceramics with an estimated value of 1 billion euro ($1.27 billion) has been donated to the British Museum -- a record for any UK institution.
But in Jingdezhen they find something different: low rent, a slower pace of life and a proximity to nature in a city of just 1.6 million inhabitants, very small by Chinese standards. From her one ...