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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Asian Art Museum is inviting the public to nickname a 3,000-year-old Chinese bronze ritual vessel that is shaped like a rhinoceros. Scholars say the artwork is important because ...

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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 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 ...