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 ...

An exhibition of exquisite ancient Chinese relics including bronze ware and bronze mirrors is set to open in Japan's Sen-Oku Hakukokan Museum on Saturday. Chinese experts said some of the relics are ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A French collector named Christian Deydier showed his new book Understanding Ancient Chinese Bronzes at an exhibition for Poly Auction in Beijing on Dec 1. "I am half French and half Chinese," the ...

As artnet News anticipated, Christie’s broke new ground in the market for Asian art, just a day earlier than anticipated: At 5 p.m. today the auction house issued a release saying that the owner of ...

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 ...

A stunning bronze bowl used by a Chinese family to store their tennis balls has sold at auction for a grand total of almost £4million ($5million). The heirloom of an unnamed German family was passed ...