Much smaller but equally stunning is the Lobby’s centrepiece, a porcelain vase (The Blue Planet of Life) by Yasuhiko Shirakata, given by Japan to mark the UN’s 50 th anniversary in 1995.

They flew to Hong Kong, where they sold a porcelain bowl at an auction house before the Ming vase was recovered by ... Wright and Kelly are also wanted in Japan over the robbery of a Tokyo ...

Three men have been found guilty of plotting to murder a member of the Securitas heist gang that stole £54m in Britain's ...

On the outskirts of Otsunomiya, Japan, Takashi Kuribayashi is redefining the boundaries between contemporary art and ...

Curator Iris Moon knew she wanted to bring the voices of Asian-American women into Monstrous Beauty, and an audio guide provided the perfect platform.

Hosting an Iftar dawat involves creating digital invitations, planning decor, and curating a menu. Fresh flowers, low-seating, and traditional setups can enhance the ambience. Consider dietary ...

Christie’s online auction The Collector will present a highly curated sale of approximately 300 lots of the finest examples of 18th and 19th century English and European furniture, porcelain, silver ...

Instead of using traditional containers, kokedamas feature small plants suspended in moss and soil, held together by twine.

The very earliest wares take their decoration from Chinese and Japanese (kakiemon) porcelain and their forms from silver shapes. Coloured enamels also predominate over underglaze blue decoration but ...