This extremely rare 18th-century Snowflake Blue Yongzheng Vase was made as imperial porcelain again during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor. The Yongzheng Emperor commissioned his potteries to ...

Thanks to the long Chinese habit of writing on objects, we know exactly who made the two blue-and-white porcelain vases in this programme, which gods they were offered to, and indeed the very day ...

Porcelain production during the Kangxi period (1662–1722) expanded China’s export trade with Europe, sparked the Chinamania craze in the nineteenth century, and bolstered the East-West exchange that ...

Here's how one of the rarest pieces of Chinese porcelain in the world ended up in the National Museum of Ireland ...

Known for its blue and white porcelain patterns ... shade of yellow to complement the rich blues in a Chinoiserie vase, creating a striking yet effortless spring arrangement.

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.