China hasn’t always been trying to catch up with the West. Gunpowder, the compass, paper and movable type: The Chinese are famous for inventing them all. A little less well known is that the Chinese ...

This summer, led by China’s Cultural Ministry, I was honored to visit the millennium ancient porcelain capital, Jingdezhen city in Jiangxi province, along with cultural diplomats from a dozen ...

Bonhams New York is offering a host of delicate treasures in its “Cohen & Cohen: 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain” live auction on January 24. “One lovely aspect of the European lady figure is ...

The auction room – standing room only – broke into applause when the hammer finally went down. On sale was a tiny, white cup decorated with chickens, and the buyer was a prolific art collector from ...

For more than 1,000 years, Chinese porcelain has enchanted the world. Its exacting craftsmanship and exceeding beauty have made it a touchstone of Asian culture. While westerners have long found it ...

Some of the exhibits at a new show about Chinese trade porcelains are not what most people would think of as “museum quality”. But these chipped plates, water-damaged teapots and humble fragments of ...

TUNIS - "It is called 'Nian Nian You Yu' in Chinese," Nassaem Mabrouk, a 19-year-old Tunisian college student, was taking photos of a blue-and-white porcelain vase at an ongoing Chinese porcelain art ...

Nine items made from imperial Chinese porcelain believed to be worth millions were stolen from a museum in Cologne, Germany, in a brazen art heist carried out, per the museum “with great effort and ...