Tucked away in her atelier along antique row on Wyndham Street here, Teresa Coleman nurtures a collection of ornate imperial robes from the courts of China that give new meaning to the term vintage ...

Tucked in Downtown Memphis, the Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art offers a journey across continents and centuries in a single afternoon. From Qing Dynasty jade masterpieces to ivory carvings and ...

Peng Shiping looks attentively as her 28-year-old daughter Peng Lin is embroidering a fish on silk. The 55-year-old master of Shu embroidery would stop her daughter if she found her stitches were ...

Dragons on Qing robes had five, four or three claws on each foot. Five claws were reserved for high-ranking officials.This highly embroidered silk dragon robe was made according to the imperial ...

Raymond Lim Eng Sin, 39, puts on a black silk robe with ornate embroidery apparent on almost every surface. The sleeves are wide, like a kimono. A motif of a crane, a Chinese symbol for high nobility, ...

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