Qing Dynasty
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 800 objects from the Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). This collection includes ceramics, bronzes, jade, arms and armour, coins, silk and wooden furniture. Its strength lies in a particularly significant collection of porcelain wares. This contains monochromes, enamels and famille rose, famille verte, famille noire and blue-and-white export porcelains. There are ceramic figures of gods, goddesses, Ba Xiang (the Eight Immortals of Chinese myths), plaques, pedestals, water droppers, vases, teacups, teapots and a porcelain lantern. The collection also includes a silk banner decorated with gilt thread and embroidered with mirrors, which dates to the late 19th century, and the only Chinese painting held by Glasgow Museums, which is entitled ‘Finishing the Coiffure’ and dates to the first half of the 18th century. The Qing Dynasty, dating from 1644 to 1911, is known for its porcelain. Production was at its peak during the 17th and 18th centuries. Millions of pieces a year were made at Jingdezhen, a city in southern China devoted entirely to porcelain manufacture.
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