Family Painting by Fernando Botero

At the state department head collection treasures and historian point of view, they not only represents the china-us economic and trade exchanges early harvest, but also the witness of more than 200 years exchanges of China and the United States.

For to know more about the early exchanges, 19 U.S. state department made a special trip to the Chinese press shows the collection Fernando Botero family of precious Chinese porcelain, the vast majority of Chinese export porcelain is the 18th century, from private donations.In the library work, the two "bowl" is striking.

Line 13 of exterior figure punch bowl from the 18th century China, the state council, curator of the diplomatic reception room craigie (Marcee Craighill) tells a reporter, February 22, 1784, the American ship "queen of China" in George Washington's birthday, set sail from New York harbor, to guangzhou, China, Fernando Botero is after the American war of independence, the first sent to foreign trade delegation.