Antique Buddhist Pillars, Pair

Antique Buddhist Pillars, Pair

Carved Stone

Height: 75"

Width: 12"

Depth: 12"

Years:  1368-1644.  The Ming Dynasty was the penultimate Chinese imperial dynasty dating to the period AD 1368 through to AD 1644. It was established after the expulsion of the Mongols by Chu Yüan-Chang, an illiterate mercenary who had begun life as a refugee from famine, then became a Buddhist monk, a bandit, and a rebel leader. The Ming first had a century of effective power and strong government, but declined in the 16th century and succumbed to an internal rebellion and subsequent Manchu invasion in the middle of the 17th century AD. Celebrated for the development of porcelain, and in literature for the rise of the Chinese novel, they also produced memorable and impressive architecture of which the Ming tombs and the Imperial Palace at Peking are superb