In 2004 the National Gallery of Victoria was gifted an early seventeenth-century English painted cabinet (fig. 1).
Bamboo groves are synonymous with the Japanese landscape, and crafting items from bamboo is one of the oldest technical skills developed in Japan.
Ai Weiwei Chinese 1957– Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1995 from the Study of Perspective series 1995–2011 gelatin silver photograph various dimensions Ai Weiwei Studio © Ai Weiwei Over the past decade Ai Weiwei has emerged as an…
We interviewed Pet Conspiracy, who will be headlining Friday Nights at NGV on 26 February 2016.
In their search for immortality, the ancient Chinese believed in a life after death. Provisions for the afterlife were buried with the deceased.
Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, or ‘delftware’, is one of the greatest artistic achievements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur
Blue: Alchemy of a Colour explores Asian and European works of art from the seventh century to the present inspired by the colour blue.
The sewing needle holds an intrinsically important place in history.
Introduction In 1989 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired two nineteenth-century Tibetan scroll paintings (thangkas) depicting Tibetan Buddhist lamas: Yuntonpa with Begtse Chen (fig.
Zhu Qizhan was born in Taichang, Jiangsu province, China, in the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911), and was a professor, dean of the Western Fine Art School of Shanghai Academy of…
Throughout the nineteenth century the Minton ceramic manufactory in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford-shire, England, was at the forefront of taste and innovation.
The question of the extent to which porcelain figures were considered sculpture – that is, figural works bearing an independent meaning, viewed and engaged with as such, rather than objects which…
Although isolated examples of Chinese porcelain were known to have filtered through to Europe in the Middle Ages it was not until the establishment of the various East India Companies…
It would seem that no aspiring middle-class family of the Victorian era would have considered the furnishing of its drawing-room as complete until it could adorn a side table or pedestal with…
The acquisition last year of two paintings by Huang Pin-hung (1864–1955) was made possible by the Felton Beques