| Abstract | Even blase New Yorkers' heads were turned by the Chinese art treasures, The Splendours of Imperial China, touring the US until April 1997. The show's two-month opener at the Metropolitan Museum ended on 19 May 1996, not a moment too soon for the critics. Five thousand years of culture had them running out of adjectives, for once. The pieces exhibited range from 4,000-year-old bronze urns and vessels and jade disks to Sung dynasty (960-1279) landscapes and porcelain, Yuan lacquers, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) flower and bird paintings and 18th century works incorporating such Western techniques as cloisonne. |
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