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China DailyThe 13th-century wine jar with fish and aquatic plants was found underneath a sink and then brought into the Brooklyn Museum. But for Susan Beningson, curator of Chinese art at the Brooklyn Museum, a 14th-century wine jar with blue-painted fish and aquatic plants provides an entry point to the museum's newly installed China gallery. In fact, if you listen to Beningson, the new China gallery showing, which features 140 pieces, is as much about the formation of the museum's remarkable Chinese collection as it is about Chinese art, ancient and modern. In another example, a first-century bronze mirror on view was bought by Stewart Culin, the museum's first curator of non-Western art, who traveled to Asia, including China, between 1909 and 1912.
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