Of rounded rectangular form, the shoulders set with lion mask handles, painted on each main side with events in the subjugation of Jihāngīr, one side with a battle scene showing Jihāngīr in what we ...

Her own poodle was known as Clicquot, short for Vulcan Champagne Clicquot. Compare with a similar coral-ground bowl, Daoguang seal mark and of the period, illustrated by S.Valenstein, A Handbook of ...

The Sublime and the Beautiful: Asian Masterpieces of Devotion—A Ming Dynasty gilded bronze figure of the Medicine Buddha sold for $5,541,000, above the estimate of $2 million–$3 million.

They were retired and now only served on grand occasions. One of them had been a boy attendant in the study of Emperor Daoguang (1821 - 1851). Another had been fitted with all the burial clothes ...

Emperor Daoguang and Emperor Xianfeng (1821 - 1861) ate less food cooked in the southern style. Emperor Daoguang occasionally took a meal of the Qianlong reign, but his regular food was cooked in ...

China was defeated and had to pay a hefty indemnity. Desperate for funds, Emperor Daoguang (father of Cixi's future husband) held back the traditional presents for his sons' brides — gold necklaces ...

Cecilia Aisin-Gioro also known as Aixijueluo Hengqin (愛新覺羅 恆欽), She is the emperor Daoguang descendant, Her father was the youngest of son of the last Prince Gong in Qing Dynasty of China. Cecilia ...