Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Follow Ada de Wit, Curator of Works of Art, as she examines a pair of Chinese gold cups and their role in the celebration of the New Year at the Qianlong Emperor’s Court.

For more information about these ritual objects, their cultural context and the use of kingfisher feathers in decoration, join us for February’s Meet the Expert talk, where Ada will be in conversation with Dr Qin Cao, Senior Curator of Chinese, Korean, Himalayan and Mongolian collections at the National Museum of Scotland: youtu.be/CcI3NrH25qg