The Philadelphia Museum of Art is well know for it's western paintings and sculpture, but when it come to their Asian art holdings...not so much.
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The PMA has a superb collection comprising thousands of examples of Asian art. From Chinese scholars objects to Indian sculpture, they have it all. Recently we did a video focussing just on some of their Chinese porcelains of the late Ming and Qing dynasties.
In the video we also discuss the museums interesting history starting out as a building erected for the Philadelphia 1876 Exposition. Then evolving into a museum which was later replaced by its current facility built in the 1920's. A great museum built by benefactors from day one, now one of the largest in the United states with over 225,000 objects.
We've added a link in the YELLOW boxes on our home page with links to the various categories within the museum's collection. They have a stunning Kangxi porcelain collection in particular.
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Among the objects discussed in the video are some of the following shown below.
![](https://i0.wp.com/bidamount.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kangxi-dragon-plate.jpg?fit=750%2C498&ssl=1)
![kangxi yixing teapot](https://i0.wp.com/bidamount.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kangxi-yixing-teapot.jpg?resize=750%2C403&ssl=1)
![kangxi yen yen](https://i0.wp.com/bidamount.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Capture-1.jpg?resize=349%2C730&ssl=1)
![kangxi famille verte](https://i0.wp.com/bidamount.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-03-27_16-39-05.png?resize=750%2C626&ssl=1)
The video is about an hour long and covers much much more than just the examples shown above.
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