Two rare Chinese antiques that had been in an East Sussex home for more than 100 years could fetch up to £36,000 at auction.

Chinese Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi is believed to have commissioned artist Tingxi to produce an encyclopedic album depicting 360 birds alongside a textual description of each. They were produced ...

In 1706, at the height of the Chinese Rites Controversy, the Kangxi Emperor appointed two Jesuit missionaries, Fathers Antonio de Barros and Antoine de Beauvollier, as his special envoys to Rome.

Jesuits are members of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus. Yongzheng's father the Kangxi Emperor did not clearly designate a successor, and there was much competition among the princes as to who ...

The museum will also use multimedia to recreate a handwritten letter from Louis XIV to the Kangxi emperor in 1688. Written in Old French, the letter praised the Kangxi emperor and expressed Louis ...

Interactive 3D models of rare artifacts. The “Red Manifesto”: Original 1716 document in Latin, Chinese, and Manchu, ordered by the Kangxi Emperor, and an important item in the Chinese Rites ...

The vase and wine pitcher were from the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1661 to 1722) and were purchased by art connoisseur and philanthropist William Cleverley Alexander in 1907 and 1913. Both items had ...