Plate and tea bowl, porcelain, Qing-dynasty China, ~1730 AD
Porcelain-handled knives made for a French customer, China, ~1715 AD
Quail figurines, Qing China, 18th century AD
Two turquoise toads, Qing China, 18th century AD
Historians generally exclude the 1931 #InvasionOfChina from the sequence of #WWII events, and should not. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1932, the #EmpireOfJapan created a puppet kingdom of #Manchukuo/#Manzhouguo in #Manchuria, nominally ruled by the deposed former #Qing emperor #Puyi.
Knife with a jade handle carved to resemble bamboo, Qing China, 19th century AD
Musket, Qing-Dynasty China, 19th century AD