A group of 12 Qing Dynasty white jade pendants. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] "During the reign of Qianlong, reverence and admiration for antiquity took deep root among the literati," the ...

The Qing Dynasty had one major political handicap ... whatever [the] difficult times . . . the jade always represents the great past. "Another side, the darker side . . . the beautiful things ...

In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with ... had its own dinnerware storehouse where all variety of gold, silver, jade, tin, Bronze, copper, and porcelain ware were ...

3.3 x 3.3 cm. (1.3 x 1.3 in.) ...

The jade cabbage is the most revered treasure ... the consort of the Guangxu Emperor who ruled during the Qing dynasty. Together, the locust, katydid, and cabbage represented purity and fertility ...

The Jade Spring is famous for its pure cool waters ... For this reason it is also known as the "Snowflake Spring." In the Qing Dynasty, the spring was praised as the "Finest Spring Under Heaven ...

The Chinese Qing dynasty celadon double gourd vase is also ... It was popular because it resembled the more expensive jade. It was also widely believed that a celadon dish would break or change ...

Three of these house Asian art, much of which dates back to the Qing Dynasty of China (1644 to 1911 ... The museum is unofficially known as the "Jade Museum" due to its extensive collection ...

Huang Ying, curator of a jade exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum, talks about a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) dark green jade vase duplicate of a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) bronze vase with a fish ...

This jade bi, already over three thousand years ... The Emperor was a member of the Qing Dynasty, which had displaced the Ming about a hundred years before, and which would rule China until ...