NANCHANG — When Ton Letwory, a seasoned ancient ceramic collector from the Netherlands ... "The style reminded me of early to middle Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) porcelain," he said.

Chinese porcelain was one of the first global luxury goods. During the Ming dynasty, blue-and-white porcelain was exported to the Middle East and Europe, where it influenced local ceramic designs.

The Chinese made beautiful vases for millennia, not just during the 1368–1644 Ming Dynasty, though ceramic techniques did improve vastly during these years. Craftsman learned to make sharper ...

ONCE a restricted site for access to the ordinary during the Chinese Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zijincheng, which translates to ...

Divided into four major themes including “Shiwan Ceramic Roof Ridge” “Shiwan Pottery ... experience the Lingnan legend forged by earth and fire. Since the mid-Ming dynasty, Shiwan ceramics are ...

He was the 11th-generation lord of the Shu Kingdom during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... character stone-carved couplet inscribed with the Chinese characters Zhongxian, Maozhu, which roughly ...

The Galle Trilingual Inscription, a relic of China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... to his voyages and inscribed in three languages - Chinese, Tamil and Persian - making it a crucial relic of ...

Ming dynasty officials had their meager ... it was not until the Han dynasty that it became the soul of Chinese life. Farmers prayed to the "Divine Farmer" for bountiful harvests, and emperors ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...