Editing Chinese art (section)

==Decorative arts==
As well as porcelain, a wide range of materials that were more valuable were worked and decorated with great skill for a range of uses or just for display.<ref name="Rawson, Chapters 4 and 6"/> Chinese jade was attributed with magical powers, and was used in the Stone and Bronze Ages for large and impractical versions of everyday weapons and tools, as well as the [[Bi (jade)|''bi'' disks]] and [[Cong (jade)|''cong'' vessels]].<ref>Rawson, 50–54</ref>  Later a range of objects and small sculptures were carved in jade, a difficult and time-consuming technique. Bronze, gold and silver, [[rhinoceros horn]], [[Chinese silk]], ivory, [[Chinese lacquerware|lacquer]] and [[carved lacquer]], [[cloisonne enamel]] and many other materials had specialist artists working in them. Cloisonne underwent an interesting process of artistic hybridization in China, particularly in the pieces promoted by missionaries and Chinese Christian communities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parada López de Corselas |first1=Manuel |last2=Vela-Rodrigo |first2=Alberto A. |title=Cultural Hybridization in Christian China: The Art of Cloisonné at The Service of God |journal=Religions |date=2021 |volume=12 |issue=12 |page=1103 |doi=10.3390/rel12121103 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[Folding screen]]s ({{lang-zh|c=屏風|p=píngfēng}}) are often decorated with beautiful art; major themes include mythology, scenes of palace life, and nature. Materials such as wood panel, paper and silk are used in making folding screens. They were considered ideal ornaments for many painters to display their paintings and calligraphy.<ref name="mazurkewich">{{cite book|last1=Mazurkewich|first1=Karen|first2=A. Chester|last2=Ong|title=Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques|year=2006|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=978-0-8048-3573-2|pages=144–146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xswA02E02KwC}}</ref><ref name="needham-v5">{{cite book |last1=Needham |first1=Joseph |author-link1=Joseph Needham |last2=Tsien |first2=Tsuen-hsuin |author-link2=Tsien Tsuen-hsuin |title=Paper and printing, Volume 5 |year=1985 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-08690-5 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lx-9mS6Aa4wC}}</ref> Many artists painted on paper or silk and applied it onto the folding screen.<ref name="mazurkewich"/> There were two distinct artistic folding screens mentioned in historical literature of the era.

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File:Covered box with pavilion and figures, China, Yuan dynasty, 1300s AD, carved lacquer - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08285.jpg|Covered box with pavilion and figures; 1300s (the [[Yuan dynasty]]); carved lacquer; [[Tokyo National Museum]]
File:Low-back armchair, China, late Ming to Qing dynasty, late 16th-18th century AD, huanghuali rosewood - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - DSC05918.JPG|Chinese low-back armchair; late 16th–18th century (late [[Ming dynasty]] to [[Qing dynasty]]); [[huanghuali]] rosewood; [[Arthur M. Sackler Gallery]], [[Washington D.C.]]
File:MET DP318319.jpg|Cup; early 17th century; rhinoceros horn; height: 10.2&nbsp;cm; [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
File:Cina, paravento coromandel, 1690 ca, legno, lacca e carta, 01.jpg|Folding screen; circa 1690; lacquered wood and paper; [[Calouste Gulbenkian Museum]], [[Lisbon]]
File:MET 33 40 63 O2.jpg|Plate; late 17th–early 18th century; cloisonné enamel; height: 4.4&nbsp;cm, diameter: 25.7&nbsp;cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:清中期 掐絲琺瑯鷄形香薰-Incense Burner in the Shape of a Rooster MET DP242335.jpg|Incense burner in the shape of a rooster; 18th century; cloisonné enamel on copper; height: 19.4&nbsp;cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:MET DP242369.jpg|Vase; 18th century; cloisonné enamel; height: 36.8&nbsp;cm, width: 17.8&nbsp;cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Moon-gate bed shown in the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Ningbo, China, c. 1876, satinwood (huang lu), other Asian woods, ivory - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07353.jpg|Chinese moon-gate bed; circa 1876; satinwood (huang lu), other Asian woods and ivory; [[Peabody Essex Museum]] ([[Salem, Massachusetts]])
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