In 1768, the emperor was given a pair of exotic jade plates as gifts. Amazed, he wrote about their origins, and over the ensuing decades, ordered the purchase of many similar jade artifacts from ...

Seal carving dates back to the Spring and Autumn period in China (770-476BC), when the tradition of signing documents with personalised engraved stone seals dipped in vermilion cinnabar paste began.

Initial reports that China had banned ivory imports for a year got a severe dousing later today after it was clarified that this ban only referred to ivory carvings. The ban, effective immediately ...

There wasn't the modern-day diplomacy yet. But Filipinos and Chinese had already established friendly links through Sultan Padaka Pahara of Sulu and Yongle Emperor, ruler of imperial China under the ...

Bill DuVall of Newton, currently has his beautiful collection of soapstone and ivory carvings on display at the Newton Public Library. DuVall collected most of the items during his time in the ...

Their teacher, 59-year-old Peng Guolong, is one of the first-generation inheritors of Nuo mask carving at the China Nuo Culture Inheritance and Protection Base. Peng said these exercises are ...

The result: An imposing figure of a seated emperor, draped in a gilded tunic and holding a scepter and orb, gazing over his Rome from a side garden of the Capitoline Museums. The reconstructed ...

Through a maze of companies as intricate as an ancient Chinese ivory carving. Hang Seng’s chiefs move quickly in and out of speculations in everything from autos and duck feathers to rice and ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2, 1912 (UP) - The dowager empress and Pu Yi, the seven-year-old emperor of China, disguised, are fleeing toward Zhikhe on the Mongolian frontier, according to dispatches from ...

A Buddhist-themed jade carving by Yang is among the British Museum's permanent collection. [Photo provided to China Daily] On par with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Emperor Qianlong's high-profile ...

A Buddhist-themed jade carving by Yang is among the British Museum's permanent collection. [Photo provided to China Daily] On par with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Emperor Qianlong's high-profile love ...