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Free ThinkingNeel Mukherjee, Images of ChinaMing: 50 Years that Changed China

Ming: 50 Years that Changed China is on at The British Museum, London from Thursday 18 September 2014 until Monday 5 January 2015

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Cloisonné enamel jar and cover with dragons. Metal with cloisonné enamels, Xuande mark and period (1426-1435), Beijing

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  • Ming prince’s ‘dragon robe’. Silk, c. 1389. Excavated from the tomb of Zhu Tan (1370-1389)
  • Cloisonné enamel jar and cover with dragons. Metal with cloisonné enamels, Xuande mark and period (1426-1435), Beijing
  • Detail from ‘Amusements in the Xuande emperor’s palace’. Handscroll, ink and colours on silk. Xuande period, 1426–1435
  • Gold. About 1400–50. Nanjing or Beijing
  • Sword and scabbard with inscription. Iron, gold, silver, wood and leather. Yongle era about 1420, Beijing
  • Portrait of Yang Hong (1381-1451). Ming dynasty, Jingtai reign, ca. 1451. Ink and color on silk. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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