Monday, December 7, 2009

The Shanghai Museum

Went to the Shanghai Museum last week with Marie during her stay in Shanghai. The 4-story museum houses ancient Chinese art and is situated on the People's Square. It also has free entrance which is a nice draw.

I'm not a huge fan of Chinese art, but there were many beautiful jade peices and some interesting old money as well. Definitely worth a look if you have a few hours to spend.



Old coins - some thousands of years...!



Stamps mean it's official money.

 










A few examples of carved Jade.  Most of the peices were smaller than the palm of my hand.


An old stamp. You can see how the red ink completely saturated the rock.


A great lion-shaped stamp - probably weighs 10 pounds.


An example of an imprint from a stamp.


A fantastic porcelain dragon


Love xx!

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