"Gentlemen of Suzhou," an exhibition of Chinese paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), gives visitors a virtual tour of what the Garden City of China looked like during the Ming Dynasty .

with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing ...

"The style of painting, the shape of the bowl ... and hallmarks are there that identify it as a product of the early Ming [Dynasty] period," Ms McAteer said. How exactly the bowl found itself ...