Today, China is in the forefront of gold producers, but it did not yet harvest an ounce on its territory until the 20th century.
To see the jewels and ornaments exhibited at the School of Jewelry Arts in Paris, who could suspect it!
Belt buckles, hair combs, costume ornaments, pendant earrings, necklaces or a few rare rings testify here to the hard and stumbling exchanges operated over three thousand years on the silk roads which brought the imperial court the necessary gold. to her finery and standing.
The pieces come from the Mengdiexuan collection, which very poetically means "butterfly's dream workshop", to evoke the evanescence of things and even from a collection that is made to be passed on.
Collected by a couple from Hong Kong who, for more than thirty years, have been buying antique metal pieces, they testify to the singular taste of the sponsors and the know-how of the craftsmen of the vast kingdom of China...
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