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Photo taken on June 8, 2022 shows a staff member displaying gene specimens of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at ...
Measuring just 5.125 inches, the 900-year-old dish was listed as “highly important and extremely rare.” It fetched $37.68 ...
Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death, served during the reigns of three successive Qing emperors, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, and it was under Qianlong that he became ...
A rare Qing Dynasty porcelain vase, once dismissed as a cleverly crafted imitation, sold for £53 million after languishing for 40 years in a British family's attic. Crafted around 1740, the vase ...
The morning sun shines through carved wooden screens, falling on the petals of a handcrafted peony taking shape under Li ...
Armed with electron microscopes, Raman spectrometers and an array of precision instruments, researchers are collecting data from each ceramic fragment to methodically build what they call a "genetic ...