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"Writing with Thread - Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities" @ The Chazen Museum of Art

Miao Courting Ensemble . Shidong style, in. Photo by Wang Lin-Sheng, courtesy of the Evergrand Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art presents today Writing with Thread - Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, on...

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Tags: chinese, textiles, Minorities

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9 janvier 2009

A small jade cup and carved green hardstone covered censer with two elephant-form handles

A small jade cup and carved green hardstone covered censer with two elephant-form handles With reticulated wood cover (wear); together with a carved green hardstone covered censer with two elephant-form handles [2] - 3 1/4 and 6 1/8in wide - Estimate:...

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Tags: chinese, jade

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30 décembre 2008

Chinese Thumb Rings

Carved jade archer’s rings, one with jade case, 19th-20th c. The two green rings are jadeite, the others nephrite (courtesy Eldred’s Auction Gallery ) Qing dynasty ivory rings, one with silver liner (top row University of Missouri Anthropology Museum;...

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Tags: chinese, Thumb Ring

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27 décembre 2008

"Seasons", Recent Works by Hong Lei @ Chambers Fine Art

Hong Lei, Xiaoshu (the Minor Heat), 2008, Fabric pigment on silk, h: 119.9 x w: 160 cm Chambers Fine Art announces the opening on January 8th, 2009 of Seasons: Hong Lei’s Recent Works. Born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1960, Hong Lei graduated from...

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Tags: chinese, contemporary, painting, Hong Lei

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23 décembre 2008

An embroidered blue gauze summer dragon robe. 19th Century

An embroidered blue gauze summer dragon robe. 19th Century Its nine dragons, cloud scrolls, auspicious symbols and wide lishui border all outlined in pale yellow threads with blue, black and white threads defining the dragons' eyes, the collar and sleeve...

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Tags: 19th century, chinese, dragon robe, blue gauze

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23 décembre 2008

A rare Manchu lady's medallion-decorated kesi informal robe. 19th Century

A rare Manchu lady's medallion-decorated kesi informal robe. 19th Century Woven with a red ground surrounding the circular reserves of phoenix and flower sprigs above a wide lishui border, the neck and sleeve bands woven en suite on a black ground, some...

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Tags: 19th century, chinese, Manchu

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23 décembre 2008

A Manchu lady's green silk ground embroidered informal robe. Late Qing Dynasty

A Manchu lady's green silk ground embroidered informal robe. Late Qing Dynasty The design of butterflies and peony blossoms worked in vivid hues against a pale emerald green ground, repeating on the black border bands in combination with chrysanthemums...

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Tags: chinese, Late Qing Dynasty, Manchu

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23 décembre 2008

A fine kesi-woven midnight blue ground lady's surcoat with medallion reserves. 19th Century

A fine kesi-woven midnight blue ground lady's surcoat with medallion reserves. 19th Century The circular reserves containing lion dogs at play amid auspicious symbols and blossoms woven in bright threads with gilt highlights and some painted details,...

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Tags: 19th century, chinese, kesi-woven, surcoat

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21 décembre 2008

A Chinese 'Kraak' porcelain dish. Wanli Period (1573-1620

A Chinese 'Kraak' porcelain dish. Wanli Period (1573-1620 of elegant shape and thinly potted, painted in blue with ducks by the water's edge, the everted rim with shaped reserves containing flowers and auspicious motifs, the reverse of the rim lightly...

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Tags: chinese, Kraak, Wanli Period

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21 décembre 2008

Zhang Huan, "Paintings and Sculptures" @ Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow

Zhang Huan, Cowskin Buddah Face, 2007 As either performance artist, film and video-maker, photographer, sculptor and / or draftsman, the art of Zhang Huan is polymorphic in its form and content(s). In essence Chinese his art develops through affective...

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Tags: chinese, contemporary, Zhang Huan

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