A woman visits an exhibition of porcelain plates of ancient China's Ming and Qing dynasties at the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, May 9, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] A rare ...
An auction house in the United Kingdom is celebrating a record result after a drawn-out bidding war for a pair of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) porcelain plates ended in a 146,000-pound ($187,000) sale, up ...
WYOMING — A little bit of Imperial China is up for grabs in West Michigan this week. Starting today, a collection of porcelain Ming and Qing Dynasty artifacts salvaged about 20 years ago from a ...
"The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court. Through a ...
HONG KONG: An extremely rare Qing Dynasty bowl made for the Chinese emperor Kangxi fetched US$30.4 million at auction Tuesday, Sotheby's said. The bowl, just under six inches (14.7 cm) in diameter, is ...
A pair of Qing dynasty jars exceeded their $63,000 estimate at London auction house Roseberys, selling for $74,318—or nearly 3,000 times the $25 that the seller paid for them at a charity shop. “These ...
The Qing Dynasty emperors did not take their meals in just one place. Often they ate where they lived, worked, or played. Banquets, feasts and dinners were given in Taihe Hall (the Hall of Supreme ...