An exhibition tracing the traditions of the Chinese table through hundreds of objects, mostly from the National Museum of China, partner of the exhibition, and complemented by a selection of works from the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts. Civilizing process in motion for some 7000 years, cooking and eating in China cannot be limited to a mere chronicle of daily behavior supported by a batch of objects. On display are: neolithic pottery tableware, soon turned into a bronze in the first three royal dynasties (2nd and 1st millennia BC ), converted lacquer (from the 3rd century BC.), then gold plate and silver on the tables of the palaces of the Tang (618-907) before the final triumph of delicate porcelain under the Sung (960-1278)…
Exhibition showing until September 30 at the Musée du Quai Branly
