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...discovered treasures have helped place those manuscripts in context as well as providing valuable clues to the cultural development of Eurasia. Everyday items such as bronze vessels, weapons, clothing and funerary offerings provide a picture of daily life. And the discovery of both Chinese- and Indian-inspired imagery on porcelain and sculpture confirm Mongolia's role in the cultural exchange between China and Eurasia...
...early 12th century, the Qidan were conquered by a northern tribe that founded the Jin dynasty and evidently had many contacts with other empires. Specimens of southern Chinese blue-and-white porcelain found in Jin settlements -- a surprise, since these wares are believed to be a 14th century invention -- may have been gifts from visiting diplomats...
...Stanley Ipkiss dons a mystical mask, and shazam! all cartoon hell breaks loose. His face goes green; his teeth grow as large as porcelain pillows. When he spots gorgeous Tina on a nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...
Then came the thin, pale, intensely lyrical paintings of the early '80s, which spin away the congestion altogether, and for a few years recapitulate the graphic intensity of his work in the 1940s, but in terms of an almost Chinese delicacy, in the colors of famille-rose porcelain. Looking at them is like seeing an old man's veins through his skin: the abiding network of the style is set forth, but in its last physical form...
Fogg Art Museum. Ongoing. " Decorative Arts Gallery. " 17th- and 18th-century British and American silver, furniture and porcelain. Some of the rare treasures are the " President's Chair" and the "Great Salt...