Christie's will set a record for an archaic Chinese bronze when the ‘Min’ Fanglei comes up for sale in New York. The “Min” Fanglei, a massive bronze ritual vessel from the late Shang/early Western ...

Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their ...

While recent discoveries have complicated the early history of China, solid evidence still points to Chinese civilisation beginning during the Shang dynasty (1600BC-1046BC) along the Yellow River.

The bronze art masterpieces of the Twelve Oriental Beasts series by outstanding contemporary sculptor Huang Chenyu are on display in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. His works have won the ...

SAN MARINO – The gift of a major private collection of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors spanning 3,000 years to the Shanghai Museum will be announced today at The Huntington Library. The collection of L ...

Unknown artist, "Zun wine vessel in the shape of an owl" (13th–12th century BCE), bronze (all images courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art) The artifact is a zun, a bronze container for wine from the ...

Zuo Bao Yi Gui, a ritual food vessel dating to early Western Zhou Dynasty (11th-10th century B.C.). (CREDIT: CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2018) NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- A rare Chinese bronze ritual ...

A set of eight bronzes once belonging to a noble family of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty's (770BC-256BC) Zeng State Photo: Courtesy of China's National Cultural Heritage Administration After an exhaustive ...

Antiques Roadshow saw a “wonderful” Chinese bronze statue given a five-figure price tag, much to its owner’s surprise. A pensioner was welcomed to the Churchill Downs racecourse in Louisville, ...

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