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      Past Exhibition

      Importing Splendor: Luxuries from China

      On view June 13, 2015 to January 13, 2019

      Today's hours:

      10 am–5 pm

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      10 am–5 pm

      Tuesday

      Closed

      Wednesday

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      Thursday

      10 am–5 pm

      Friday

      10 am–5 pm

      Saturday

      10 am–5 pm

      Sunday

      10 am–5 pm

      Monday

      10 am–5 pm

      Tuesday

      Closed

      Wednesday

      Closed

      Thursday

      10 am–5 pm

      Friday

      10 am–5 pm

      Saturday

      10 am–5 pm

      Sunday

      10 am–5 pm

      The most coveted luxurious items of their day.

      Explore PEM's superlative Chinese export art collection — the most comprehensive and celebrated collection of its kind — through nearly 30 selected works, including furniture, paintings and decorative objects. Created by Chinese artists in the 18th and 19th centuries for European and American markets, these works display a mastery of material and form that made them the most coveted luxurious items of their day.

      TOP IMAGE: Sung Sing Kung Factory, China. Moon Bed, about 1876. Satin wood, asian wood, ivory. Gift of Mr. Robert W. Sarnoff, 1977. E80259. Peabody Essex Museum. Photograph by Kathy Tarantola.

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