The French Museum Guimet has a love affair with Chinese treasures.

  

The Guimet Museum of Asian Arts has collected more than twenty thousand Chinese artworks, ranging from artifacts and sculptures to decorations.

  

The collection includes jade articles from the Neolithic period, bronze wares and mirrors, ancient coins and lacquers from Shang (About1600-1100BC) and Zhou (About1100-221BC) Dynasties as well as Buddhist artworks, over ten thousand of porcelains and collections from Han (206BC-AD220) and Tang (618-907) Dynasties. Furthermore, thousands of paintings spanning from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) have also been collected by the museum.