synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor worship from about 1500 B.C. through A.D. 200. ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese ... Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Shaft bell (yong) with spirals and dragons; from a set Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Bell in the form of a ...

And the Xumishan grottoes—a collection of ancient Buddhist cave temples ... Others, such as Harvard's Eugene Wang, an expert on Chinese Buddhist art, see no special significance in the name ...

Opening this month to coincide with Hong Kong Art Week, it’s the brainchild ... “This is the first exhibition to prominently feature ancient Chinese picnic sets,” Chiang says.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Chinese bells were divided into musical bells, Buddhist bells, Taoist bells, imperial court bells and bells for sounding the night watches. Their ...

These techniques, in fact, were invented thousands of years ago by the leaders of the Ancient World ... was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status.

(Photo by Liu Jian/Xinhua) Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in northwest ... inscriptions in multiple languages, including Chinese and Old Uygur. The caves are arranged ...