(My Great Uncle Charles was a Royal Marine and fought in the Boxer Uprising in China and he later married a Chinese lady and became the chief Sanitary Inspector of Hong Kong.) The urn passed on to ...

Signed by the artist L. Lauwers, the gilt highlighed pink ground featues panels showing courting couples in landscape settings. Each urn is mounted with gilt bronze twin handles, camphored base and ...

The Porcelain Room represents a contemporary interpretation of a historical Chinese porcelain room. Commissioned by Fondazione Prada and created by Tom Postma Design, the exhibition explores the ...

The blue-glazed, silver and gilt vase was created for the court of the Qianlong Emperor An "extremely rare" 18th Century Chinese vase ... "Thrillingly, no other porcelain decorated with the ...

this vase has a speckled turquoise and purple glaze, however, the neck and base are made of ruby porcelain and styled with ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched ...

The envy of potters and collectors in Europe and the Middle East, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain owed its excellence to the fine clay available to the Chinese as well as to their high ...

Experts said the vase could have been worth much more had it not been damaged A rare Chinese vase found under a table has sold for more than eight times its guide price despite fears damage would ...

A man destroyed a large porcelain sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on Friday during the opening of his exhibition at Palazzo Fava in Bologna, Italy, the New York Timesreported. The incident ...

Find out how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac decided who would have which year named after them. You can find out which Chinese zodiac you and your little ones are over on Blue Peter.

From ‘involution’ to ‘home economy’, it has not taken long for a new vocabulary to emerge which describes life in today’s China.