Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Bottle North China, probably from Xiuwu or Cizhou Northern Song period (960–1127), 12th century Stoneware with sgraffito design in slip under glaze (Cizhou ware) Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.141 http://sites.asiasociety.org/asianjourneys/chinese-civil-strife-and-the-international-art-market/
The Earliest Chinese Inscriptions in Bronze Circa 1,200 BCE – 1,045 BCE The earliest Chinese inscriptions in bronze date from the late Shang period (c. 1200-1045 BCE) “Discovered at Anyang in Henan province and at sites in the central Yangzi region, Shang bronze objects belonged to members of the royal family and the political elite. Under Zhou rule (104-221 BC) this social level of ownership continued and even widened. In existence today are probably over ten thousand inscribed vessels, weapons, bells and other bronze objects made before the Qin unification of 221 BC…”(http://www.historyofscience.com/G2I/timeline/index.php?category=Writing+%2F+Palaeography+%2F+Calligraphy)
via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qingming_Festival_Detail_7.jpg detail of the Chinese handscroll Along the River During Qingming Festival more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_the_River_During_the_Qingming_Festival http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_02.htm?docno=90&catno=15&pageno=5
Along the River During Qingming Festival,12th century original by Zhang Zeduan. - detail of the Chinese handscroll Along the River During Qingming Festival
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