{"id":8835,"date":"2026-01-02T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/in-china-a-ming-dynasty-painting-donated-to-a-major-museum-resurfaces-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:36:59","slug":"in-china-a-ming-dynasty-painting-donated-to-a-major-museum-resurfaces-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/in-china-a-ming-dynasty-painting-donated-to-a-major-museum-resurfaces-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"In China, a Ming dynasty painting donated to a major museum resurfaces at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8216;Jiangnan Spring,&#8217; by Qiu Ying (ink on silk from the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644).  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">WIKIMEDIA<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">It could be the opening scene of a Qiu Xiaolong crime novel: a vanished painting, a prestigious museum and a state investigation stirring up decades of dusty secrets. An unprecedented controversy surrounding the collections of Nanjing Museum, located in Jiangsu province, has sent shockwaves through China&#8217;s art world. On December 23, Beijing opened an investigation after a museum treasure resurfaced on the auction market. The affair has combined suspicions of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/culture\/article\/2026\/01\/01\/in-china-a-ming-dynasty-painting-donated-to-a-major-museum-resurfaces-at-auction_6749001_30.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Jiangnan Spring,&#8217; by Qiu Ying (ink on silk from the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644). WIKIMEDIA It could be the opening scene of a Qiu Xiaolong crime novel: a vanished painting, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3261,3049],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}