The collection spans a wide range of art forms and thousands of years of history. Every exhibit is a wonder.
The world’s biggest collection of Chinese cultural objects spans a wide range of art forms and thousands of years of history, and every exhibit is a wonder. SeeThere’s much to admire in the museum’s painting collection, with many in long-scroll form.Ready for a refreshing change from swooning saints and gloomy portraiture? Delicate Chinese landscape paintings favour impressionistic, dreamlike scenery in which clouds, rivers and waterfalls are often merely suggested by unpainted spaces.
Get to Gallery 302 on the third floor first thing if you want to avoid the crowds that gather to see a public favourite, considered one of the great treasures of Chinese civilisation: a carving in jadeite of a Chinese cabbage in miniature. The Qing Dynasty carving has a marvellous luminosity, uses the rock’s natural colour changes from white to green to great effect, and features two carved insects amid the leaves.
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