Age of Empires: Chinese Art, Qin & Han Dynasties at The Met
Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties with more than 160 ancient Chinese works of art – on show at The Met New York, April 3 – July 16, 2017
Chinese Ceramics
Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics – The Met, New York
Global by Design: Chinese Ceramics from the R. Albuquerque Collection features Chinese ceramics from a Brazilian private collection with a focus on blue & white
China: Through the LookIng Glass – A Cultural Conversation
China Through the Looking Glass is a cultural conversation taking place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in collaboration with The Costume Institute
The Culture Concept – Art Design & Style, Free Video Series
The Culture Concept Circle videos survey the progress of architecture, gardens, interiors, paintings, sculpture & objet d’art FREE – Antiquity to Renaissance
Chinese Ceramics, Pt 2 – Am Glad I Was Not Born Before Tea!
With an assorted assemblage of porcelain wares being used for the tea ceremony in England imports of tea alone multiplied some forty times between 1723 and 1830
Chinese Ceramics, Pt 1 – Knowledge Comes from Seeing Much
Chinese ceramics became known to the wider world from the Tang Dynasty (618- 907) onward; the word ‘China’ eventually becoming the generic name for porcelain
Ming Magic
The description of the manufacture of porcelain written in 1713, by French Jesuit priest Father D’Entrecolles, resident in Peking, describes the seeming magic connected with the firing of blue and white porcelain. ‘A beautiful blue colour appears on the porcelain after having been lost for some time. When the colour…
Nanking Wares
Emperor Kangxi (1662-1722) of China was a patron of classical studies, a poet and calligrapher. In 1682 he ordered the reconstruction of the ceramic kilns at Jingdezhen, which had been partly destroyed during the early years of the dynasty. This was when Charles II (1630 – 1685) was on the…
At the Beginnings of Art – Precious Cargoes from Cathay
Italian adventurer, Marco Polo, perpetuated the western predilection for exotic goods in the European mind from early in the thirteenth century. He related fascinating stories about visiting a far off luxurious land called Cathay.