115 x 62 cm. (45.3 x 24.4 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

This is a painting (circa 1760s) of the consort of the Qianlong emperor and the future Jiaqing emperor in his boyhood. It was probably done by Giuseppe Castiglione, a Jesuit, and other court painters.

Talk about the find of a lifetime. A vase that was purchased for 1 British pound ($1.21) could be worth nearly $100,000 (80,000 British pounds) after it was revealed that the vase was made for the ...

Given the western fascination with all things Chinese — from feng shui to fusion food, from Mandarin collars to the mainland economy — it is hardly surprising that London’s Royal Academy would mount ...

Experts are exploring and restoring the Forbidden City's best-preserved, yet least-understood, structure - Emperor Qianlong's long-sealed retirement lodge. Zhang Zixuan reports in Beijing. Juanqinzhai ...

A historic portion of Beijing’s famed Forbidden City will soon open to the public for the first time. The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that the sprawling Qianlong Garden, said to hold ...

Even more strikingly than the Mongols, the Manchu illustrate a principle that we can also see in the Turkic invasions of Persia, the Arabic invasion of large parts of the Eastern Roman Empire and of ...

A restored imperial theatre in China reveals how Western techniques of visual perspective brought by the Jesuits were adopted by an eighteenth-century Chinese emperor, explains Martin Kemp. Since the ...

THE 18th-century Chinese emperor, Qianlong, was a contemporary of Louis XV, Catherine the Great and George Washington; as famous throughout Asia as they were in the West. Unwilling to challenge the ...