The Central House of Artist is housing the exposition of the 40th Russian Antiquarian Salon from March 26 to April 3. This time it highlights the Chinese art.
Traditionally galleries from Moscow and other cities specializing in period pieces and antique art works of the 20th century take part in the event. Galleries from France, Germany, Italy, the USA and Belarus have arrived in Moscow to join the exhibition as well. Paintings by Western European old masters and canvasses domestic realistic school, jewelry and vintage classics, imperial and Soviet porcelain, monuments of iconography, Oriental bronze, rare books and what not – all these and many other things can be found at the exposition.
The special exposition of the 40th Russian Antiquarian Salon is dedicated to the Chinese art.
The exhibition Silk Way in Time consists of two parts. The first one -  Masterpieces of the Chinese Art from Private Collections - presents works of the 17th century: a bell, a jade bull sculpture and a porcelain vase, as well as antiques of porcelain, nephrite, wood and filigree enamel of the 18th-19th centuries.
The second part displays the Chinese nephrite from Bronislav Vinogrodsky's collection.
"The exposition gives a picture of the variety of themes in greenstone art works, including auspicious animals and ritual objects, amulets and feng shui objects, interior design and luxury items, and traces the development of stone-carving over two and a half thousand years", - the curators point out.
Some of the leading galleries from Moscow and other Russian cities have prepared special topical expositions. For example, the salon In Kutuzovsky, 24 holds the exhibition Masterpieces of Russian Art Nouveau that highlights jewelry of glorified companies, including Fabergé and Khlebnikov; the Old Masters Gallery exhibits paintings by old masters - in particular, Jan Steen and Lucas Cranach Jr.; whereas the Transatlantique has brought to Antiquarian salon a furniture collection of Jacques Adne, one of the chief art deco designers of an on .
The Russian Antiquarian Salon was founded 20 years ago. Since then it has been held twice a year, in spring and autumn.