It all started with some empty shelves. In 1960, Michael Butler, a diplomat at the British Foreign Office, was in search of ornaments to fill the white space in his house in London’s Chelsea. He ...
Li Jiansheng, one of China’s foremost ceramic artists and scholars, will discuss Chinese and American cultural similarities and differences that find common ground in the clay medium, on Wednesday, ...
The westward spread of the Chinese ceramics, known as "white gold," saw these objects become a fascination in upper-class households—and resulted in a damaged relationship between empires. A Ming ...
A porcelain bowl a couple kept on their sideboard for years has sold for almost £400,000 after it turned out to be a 900-year-old Chinese relic. The unmarked 5ins tall censer bowl was put to one side ...
Known in English as china, porcelain was first made in China and became representative of the country, after its development during the Han dynasty. Travelling along the maritime silk roads, it soon ...
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