On Wednesday, in London, Sotheby's sold a pair of rare 16th-century Ming Dynasty Chinese jars decorated ... which appeared in an auction of Chinese art. They eventually sold to a private Asian ...

Co-organized with Shanghai Museum, the exhibition features 200 works, including bronzes, paintings, ceramics, and jades, ...

A specialist in Asian art validated that the item could fetch a price of up to $100,000. "I was astounded when I discovered it was from the Ming Dynasty. This makes it the oldest Chinese artifact ...

Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia and worldwide head of Asian art, writes in his preface for Liu's collection of Chinese ceramics, "Together with the classical and modern paintings and ...

with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing ...

Painting, printmaking and ... even the early Manchus knew a bit about how the Ming empire worked. Historians have different views about how the Qing dynasty ruled. On the one hand, some view ...

This edition, published in 1510 (5th year of the Zhengde reign period of the Ming dynasty, Geng Wu year ... leg taiyin); heart channel of arm shaoyin); small intestine channel of art taiyang; small ...