Among the assortment of goods, he noticed a porcelain plate tucked beneath ... from the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing ...

Wondering about the secrets behind a rare porcelain plate, the Dutch collector Ton Letwory found hope in Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic Gene Bank, the first of its kind in the world. With help from ...

and fowl to be served on red porcelain plates in Yangxin Hall.” He selected three different places for his meals in just two days. The Qing Dynasty emperors ate two formal meals a day ...

Yet the answers remained elusive — until his quest connected him remotely with researchers at the Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic ...

Photo taken on June 8, 2022 shows a staff member displaying gene specimens of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty ... Painting, printmaking and porcelain manufacturing thrived. The empire trebled in size and its population grew to over 350 million.

acquired an intricately painted porcelain plate over a decade ago, he was told it was a piece from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). But something about its design — the swirling motifs, the ...

Armed with electron microscopes, Raman spectrometers and an array of precision instruments, researchers are collecting data from each ceramic fragment to methodically build what they call a "genetic ...