Download PDF by Martha Avery, Li Xianyao, Luo Zhewen: China's Museums

By Martha Avery, Li Xianyao, Luo Zhewen

ISBN-10: 7508506030

ISBN-13: 9787508506036

A part of the academic and wonderfully produced Cultural China sequence, this booklet specializes in the wealth of gadgets and continues to be which were preserved on China’s significant territory and underground, a lot of which has been gathered and exhibited in a variety of museums. In bright colour, with illustrations and images accompanying the textual content all through.

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It is one of the important areas for the rise of the Chinese people’s early civilization. Because of this, exhibitions in this museum are mostly related to the ancient history and culture of the Henan region, including objects, historical traces, ancient architecture, archaeological discoveries and arts and crafts. In the past several decades, the collecting, protection, research, and exhibition of this museum’s artifacts as well as their promotion and educational material on them have seen great advances.

The collections occupy an important position among museums’ collections in China. Painting and calligraphy collections include paintings by famous Tang-dynasty and Northern Song artists, and woodblock-print editions include the Ming-dynasty Album of the Ten-bamboo Studio, The exterior of the Liaoning Provincial Museum. National Treasures the first colored woodblock print in Chinese woodblock-print history. The ceramics collections in the museum are also quite famous and valuable. Liao porcelain is unique in the art form for its treatment of colored glazes, but the collection also includes Liao monochromes such as the lovely Liao white porcelain.

Rooms 13 to 18: Exhibit Yuan, Ming and Qing objects. These include Ming-dynasty maps, an inscription from a military commander of the Ming, from eastern Liaoning, also A copper gui called ‘yufu gui,’ a kind of food vessel used in the Ming- and Qing-dynasty Western Zhou dynasty unearthed in Kazuo, Liaoning. ceramics and paintings. In addition to the above exhibitions, a corridor of stelaes has been set up on the east side of the exhibition hall. This preserves a collection of tomb stones set up from the Han to the Ming dynasties, as well as inscriptionstelaes, stone portraits, stone coffins and so on, altogether some one hundred stone objects.

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