Huang Ying, curator of a jade exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum, talks about a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) dark green jade vase duplicate of a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) bronze vase with a fish ...

In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with ... had its own dinnerware storehouse where all variety of gold, silver, jade, tin, Bronze, copper, and porcelain ware were ...

The Qing Dynasty had one major political handicap ... whatever [the] difficult times . . . the jade always represents the great past. "Another side, the darker side . . . the beautiful things ...

The jade cabbage is the most revered treasure ... the consort of the Guangxu Emperor who ruled during the Qing dynasty. Together, the locust, katydid, and cabbage represented purity and fertility ...