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 ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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As China and the US mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties this year, an exhibition of ancient Chinese bronzeware is going on tour in the US to give a glimpse into Chinese history, and in the ...

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 ...