NEW YORK, NY.- Rare and luxurious articles made for emperors, courtiers and scholars are the focus of the fifteenth annual New York exhibition staged by London gallery Eskenazi Ltd, one of the world’s leading dealers in Asian art. Early Chinese Metalwork in Gold and Silver and Works of Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties will take place at the Ukrainian Institute, 2 East 79th Street , New York , from Tuesday 15 to Saturday 26 March 2011. The exhibition is part of Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) and coincides with Asia Week. The exhibition will feature exquisitely decorated pieces from the Tang period (618-907 AD), one of the most important being a parcel-gilt silver box and cover in the form of a melon surmounted by a bushy-tailed squirrel, or tree shrew, holding a bunch of grapes. This charming piece has an excellent provenance having been acquired in Shanghai in the 1950s by the distinguished collector/dealer Wa