The might of the Ming dynasty will be on display at the USC Pacific Asia Museum beginning Feb. 26 in the exhibition “Royal Taste: The Art of Princely Courts in 15th Century China.” The traveling show ...

HONG KONG – A Shanghai collector paid a record $36 million Tuesday for a rare Ming Dynasty cup that's touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world. Several records have been set at Sotheby's spring ...

A Shanghai collector bought a rare Ming Dynasty cup touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world for $36 million at a Hong Kong auction on Tuesday, smashing the world record price for Chinese ...

Nearly 1,000 cultural relics have been recovered from shipwrecks dating back to the Ming Dynasty — from 1368-1644 — including porcelain and pottery, copper coins, and deer antlers, China’s National ...

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A recent deep-sea archaeological expedition in the South China Sea has led to the discovery and recovery of over 900 artifacts from two ancient shipwrecks dating back to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

WYOMING — A little bit of Imperial China is up for grabs in West Michigan this week. Starting today, a collection of porcelain Ming and Qing Dynasty artifacts salvaged about 20 years ago from a ...

In the New York Times, Holland Cotter reviews an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,“The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection, ...