The westward spread of the Chinese ceramics, known as "white gold," saw these objects become a fascination in upper-class households—and resulted in a damaged relationship between empires. A Ming ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ming flasks, precious jade, rare porcelain and contemporary works of art are among thousands of objects going up for auction in the semi-annual Asian art sales starting Monday in ...

Porcelain artist Cliff Lee spent 17 years trying to recreate a glaze. He succeeded. Then, he lost the formula. Three years would pass before he could successfully (and continually) reproduce the ...

Zhang Jingjing at Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum [Photo by Cui Ligang] Zhang Jingjing, a ceramicist who resides in Jingdezhen, the world-famous "Millennium Porcelain Capital," in East China's Jiangxi ...

Li Jiansheng, one of China’s foremost ceramic artists and scholars, will discuss Chinese and American cultural similarities and differences that find common ground in the clay medium, on Wednesday, ...

For more than 1,000 years, Chinese porcelain has enchanted the world. Its exacting craftsmanship and exceeding beauty have made it a touchstone of Asian culture. While westerners have long found it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A box of old crockery stored in an attic turned out to be Chinese porcelain worth $200,000. The owner, Gill Stewart, found the box ...

In 1993, when Lai Dequan went to Japan to exchange ideas with local artists, he left them astonished. Lai is a master of porcelain art. Every step of making porcelain is second nature to him, from ...

Did you know that Chinese ceramics were once considered high-tech? For several ages, China was the only civilization that knew how to make porcelain. Ceramics are generally made based on three basic ...