The great wealth of the Qidan Mongols, who lived on the steppes and were the founders of the powerful Liao Dynasty (907-1125), is revealed in their finely-wrought goldwork: princely crowns, saddles and harnesses, jade and amber, arms and porcelain. The funereal offerings for a princess who died at the age of eighteen, discovered perfectly persevered in a tomb in a secret dynastic burial ground, are especially beautiful.