GUEST: This Chinese urn, I-- it's been in our family ... this is the label, as you mentioned. "Old Bronze, 300 years old, Ming Dynasty." This doesn't date from the Ming Dynasty, though.

APPRAISER: It's bronze. GUEST: Oh ... an apex of production or appreciation or devotion, during the late Ming Period. So about 1615, 1620. GUEST: Wow. APPRAISER: These seated immortal devotional ...

Two of the largest bronze figures ... commissioned for Chinese shrines and are an exception example of the influence of Vajrayana Buddhism on emperors of the early Ming dynasty.

Known for exquisite porcelain production and expansive trade, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) represents a period of Chinese imperial rule between the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and the ...

He later put it up for exhibit at the National Gallery of South Africa’s Chinese Exhibition ... Emperor Xuande was the fifth Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and reigned for over a decade from ...

The Ming vase belongs to a collection of Chinese porcelain gathered together by Swiss tycoons. A Chinese vase from the early Ming period has been sold for $21.6m (£14m) - a world record at ...

MING PORCELAIN HAS always been highly prized. Its makers have been patronized by Chinese emperors, its pieces eagerly sought by European princes, then fought over at auction by the Industrial Age ...

The Ming vase belongs to a collection of Chinese porcelain gathered together by Swiss tycoons. A Chinese vase from the early Ming period has been sold for $21.6m (£14m) - a world record at ...