Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Chinese Treasure Trove

Chinese Pottery

Crammed into a nondescript house in suburban Los Angeles were roughly 10,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain and pottery, some up to 2,000 years old, so densely packed that any movement threatened to send them crashing to the floor. Some were still encrusted with coral, evidence of their hidden life for centuries under the sea. [article]

The New York Times also has a short slideshow.


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