Renewal

Named the Millennium Dragon when its design was re-created by the official Liuli kiln workshop in 2000, this sculpture is based on a Ming-style chuíshòu ("垂兽")—a dragon-form creature traditionally positioned...

A pair of Opaline Ivory mandarin ducks swims through bands of water beneath lotus leaves, flowers and seed pods, all modeled in layered relief across the scalloped body. In Chinese...

A koi rises through a curling wave, its scales glazed in Imperial Gold and its fins in Emerald Green. In Chinese decorative art, the carp swimming upstream signifies persistence and...

Lotus leaves, an open flower and a sculpted seed pod rise across the flattened, petal-shaped body of this vase. In Chinese art, the lotus is admired for emerging unsoiled from...