As you enter Snowpeak Pass, you will immediately be greeted by Liu Cheng'en, a general of the Ming army. And if you thought ...

Developed on a budget of 200 million yuan ($28 million) and released globally, it has been regarded by many as a significant ...

The Meiyintang “Chicken Cup” from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is displayed during a press conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Sotheby’s said Shanghai collector Liu ...

Shanghai-based art collector Liu Yiqian recently spent $36.3 million on a tiny porcelain cup with a humble chicken painted on its surface. But for many in China, the most shocking thing wasn't the ...

In 2014, Liu bought the Chenghua "chicken cup," a Ming dynasty porcelain piece, for 281.2 million Hong Kong dollars (36.2 million US dollars), the highest record for Ming dynasty Chinese porcelain ...

A 500-year-old cup, which measures only eight centimeters (3.1 in) and is daintily decorated with images of hens and chicks, was purchased by Shanghai collector Liu Yiqian for $36.3 million during ...

A total of 81 sets of precious portrait paintings from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) on loan from Beijing Palace Museum are now on display at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Fourteen sets of national ...

More information: Meng Ren et al, The collapse of the Ming Dynasty actually began with the Wanli megadrought: Insights from a hydroclimate reconstruction based on tree-ring δ18O over the past 460 ...

The Ming Dynasty-era "chicken cup" just sold at a Sotheby's auction for $36 million. Only 19 of the cups were ever made.

Two volumes of the Ming Dynasty’s Yongle Encyclopedia (永樂大典) sold yesterday at auction in Paris for 8 128 000€, over 1000 times of the estimated price. The Encyclopedia sought to ...

It was made during the reign of the Ming Dynasty’s Chenghua Emperor, who ruled from 1465 to 1487. Sotheby’s said only 17 such cups exist, with four in private hands and the rest in museums.