Room 44: China
The T. T. Tsui Gallery houses one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art dating from 3000 BC to the present time.
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Room 47e: Chinese Sculpture
Buddhism travelled from India into China during the 1st century AD. It became part of Chinese life and culture alongside other belief systems. The V&A holds exquisite exam…
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Room 47f: Chinese Export Art
All the items on display in this room were made in China and brought to the West by merchants who went there to buy tea, silk and porcelain and other craft products, as wel…
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Chairs by Designer Shao Fan
Artist Shao Fan is sculptor and painter, and freely experiments with various media. To the contemporary Chinese design industry however, the name Shao Fan is often immediat…
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Space Age objects from the East Asian collection
The V&A's East Asian Collection has received a newspaper printed on silk and a First Day Cover commemorating a landmark event in China's recent history: the launch of the s…
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Fashion in Motion: Ma Ke Wuyong
The Ma Ke Wuyong Fashion in Motion live catwalk event took place on May 16 2008. Ma Ke is one of the most prolific fashion designers working in China today, she graduated f…
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Chinese Buddhist Cave Temple Sculpture
This Buddha's head, which dates to the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 AD) is one of several pieces in the V&A's collection thought to have originated from a Buddhist cave tem…
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Manchu Horse-hoof shoes
The Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the last empire in Chinese history, was ruled by the Manchus, a nomadic group that came from the north. Much of what we know today as Chinese …
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A souvenir from Guangzhou
Very few export paintings of this type remain in the collections in Guangzhou; consequently they are regarded with great interest by Chinese scholars as an invaluable docum…
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V&A working in and with China
Contacts between V&A and Chinese museum professionals since 2004 have ranged from photography and digitisation to collections research and education programmes.
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Leonia Fine Bone China Hybid Cup and Saucer
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