{"id":47,"date":"2020-01-29T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:52:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/07\/Exhibit_ChineseCarvingsIncenseBurner_webimage-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for exhibition featuring an Agate incense burner.\" class=\"wp-image-60\" style=\"width:768px;height:432px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/07\/Exhibit_ChineseCarvingsIncenseBurner_webimage-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/07\/Exhibit_ChineseCarvingsIncenseBurner_webimage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/07\/Exhibit_ChineseCarvingsIncenseBurner_webimage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/07\/Exhibit_ChineseCarvingsIncenseBurner_webimage-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/07\/Exhibit_ChineseCarvingsIncenseBurner_webimage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Continuing in Spring 2018<\/em>&nbsp;On view are 20th-century Chinese carvings of agate, a variety of quartz, which show forms that date back thousands of years. The fine carving of this hard material was made possible by the modern development of high-speed diamond tools. In addition to this single-case exhibition, the Permanent Collection remains on display. It highlights minerals from the founding du Pont Collection, regional materials from Pennsylvania, worldwide specimens and thematic displays of crystallography, growth phenomena, and cave minerals. PROGRAMMING: Reception and&nbsp;Curator&#8217;s Talk&nbsp;March 14, 2018 Mineralogical Museum in Penny Hall 5-7 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing in Spring 2018&nbsp;On view are 20th-century Chinese carvings of agate, a variety of quartz, which show forms that date back thousands of years. The fine carving of this hard material was made possible by the modern development of high-speed diamond tools. In addition to this single-case exhibition, the Permanent Collection remains on display. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/contemporary-chinese-carvings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}