Various ancient porcelains and woodblock paintings on display transformed Prince Kung's Palace Museum into a vibrant hub of ...

For many centuries China held the secret to making the ... NOVA: Can you explain the differences between porcelain produced for imperial use and porcelain made for export? Wu: The court ...

and porcelain ware were kept for use at any time. The External kitchen prepared the palace banquets, feasts, and sacrificial rites. The Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden, the Summer Palace, and the ...

They began to make porcelain specifically for export to ... the Holy Land of Israel and Imperial China' — but the text's meaning remains unclear. 'All of us, we were very excited [by] this ...

Ceramics were first produced in China in the early 7th century, and Chinese porcelain is regarded as the most advanced in the world by far. The pieces were made for the imperial court, the Chinese ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Prince Kung's Palace Museum in Beijing ... vase and the white-glazed long-neck beast-handle vase. The Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln was an official porcelain production ...

ISTANBUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and ...

Because Qubilai Khan is a thirteenth-century Chinese emperor and Xanadu merely the English form of Shangdu, his Imperial ... and-white porcelain is practically synonymous with China.