Made exclusively for the Northern Song court, Ru Kiln porcelain wares are by far the most celebrated of Chinese ceramics, ...

Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia and worldwide head of Asian art, writes in his preface for Liu's collection of Chinese ceramics, "Together with the classical and modern paintings and ...

He also noted the decline of China's dynamism was mirrored in its ... indicate it's possible that it is a late 19th Century imperial jade seal rather than an 18th Century jade seal." ...