Western museums with Chinese artifacts

Western museums have always been keen to acquire Chinese historical art.

In the quest for displaying Chinese art such as bronze ware, the practices of ancient Chinese ancestor worship are retold. Many of these bronzes were used as decorative or ceremonial purposes and they are from China's early history.

In one of the museums in Paris, the Cernuschi museum, they acquired an extensive bronze collection from China. Among them is an enormous basin which is the largest of its kind outside China. This together with other vases from the Shang dynasty were used for ancestor worship in the early years.