Genèse de l’empire céleste, dragons, phénix et autres chimères / The beginning of the world, Dragons, Phoenix and Other Chimera. Europe earthenware and glass

earthenware and glass

administering them

presented at the Centre Pompidou from October 30

An astonishing fresco of political history

Genèse de l’empire céleste, dragons, phénix et autres chimères / The beginning of the world, Dragons, Phoenix and Other Chimera. Europe earthenware and glassSince time immemorial, China has been interested in the Great Story of the Universe. From the earliest dynasties, sky watchers recorded the movements of celestial bodies. Cosmology became a state science, and sovereignsthe sons of Heavenwere the guarantors of the resonance of Heaven and the empire. The story of this marriage between Heaven and Earth can be deciphered through the prism of jade. Only jade can bridge fifty centuries and simultaneously