Bringing Heaven to Earth. Chinese Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty

Shining a light on a little-known area of Chinese decorative arts from 1850 to 1930, this pioneering book presents fifty pieces of Late Qing jewellery from an important North American collection. Immortals, dragons, magpies, monkeys and bats populate its pages. In so many aspects, these exquisite objects - made with silver, jade, tourmaline, amethyst, rock crystal, rose quartz, carnelian and serpentine - reveal a previously unexplored journey, not just from Heaven to Earth but from the West to the East and back again.