At a recent Maridon Museum program, Kwun Kwong Kai wrote people's names in Chinese using his calligraphy set for a donation to the museum. His family is sponsoring a temporary exhibit at the Maridon.

An exhibit, sponsored by the Kai family of Pittsburgh, is on display at the Maridon Museum, 322 N. McKean St.

Kwun Kwong Kai, director of the China Overseas Exchange Association and chairman of the Pittsburgh Academy of Chinese Culture & Language, and his daughter, Sherry Kai, delivered the items for the Maridon's New Year exhibit.

Some of the collection pieces include:

Gongbi painting of Guanyin Riding on Cloud Dragon. Gongbi is a careful realist, detailed painting technique in China, and Guanyin is the Goddess of Mercy.

Zisha Ware Tea Pot or “purple sand/clay” Stoneware Tea Pot. Zisha, also known as Yixing clay from the city of Yixing in Jhangso Province, China. has been used to create Chinese pottery since the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The crab is the symbol of prosperity.

Paper cutting of the Yellow Crane Tower, a famous structure located on Snake Hill in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The tower has existed in various forms since the third century AD.

“The Private Collection of Kwun Kwong Kai” continues through April 23.Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays.The Maridon Museum, opened in 2004, is the only museum in Western Pennsylvania with a focus on Asian art and culture coupled with Meissen Porcelain. The museum and the objects it houses were gifts of the late Mary Hulton Phillips, a life-long resident of Butler.The Asian art collection includes more than 800 art objects, such as jade and ivory sculptures, tapestries, landscape paintings, scrolls, and artifacts. The collection contains objects that date back to the Neolithic Period (2nd and 3rd millennium B.C.).

“The Private Collection of Kwun Kwong Kai” continues through April 23 at the Maridon Museum.